Some homes whisper their stories quietly through worn floorboards and faded wallpaper. Others — like the three-story 1905 Georgian Revival mansion of Justin and Tedd Trabert — shout them in technicolor, full of drama, history and charm.

This grand estate, now lovingly referred to as “Trabert Manor,” with its arches, columns, moody decor, and a ballroom-turned-primary suite, was originally built for Henry and Anna Powitzky, a couple so fiery that their quarrels became local legend. The police were summoned so frequently to break up fights in these very rooms that “a Powitzky” became shorthand among officers for a domestic dispute. Today, more than a century later, the same walls that once rang with turmoil now echo with laughter, music and the clinking of glasses.

The Traberts didn’t set

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