riving up to the house‚ which sprawls over a 900-foot hilltop‚ one sees nothing
but a high stone wall with some gables peeking over. evans thought that
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such a barrier might appear forbidding but realized it brought the element of
surprise. Guests step through a portal‚ enter the house and are carried away
by the 180-degree vista of rolling green hills‚ extending 25 miles to the west
on a clear day. that’s a revelation worth waiting for‚ and the boundary wall is
echoed in a spinal wall linking the living areas to the south‚ the master suite to
the north and three smaller bedrooms in between. italian masons crafted the
wall‚ carefully selecting each stone for a consistency of size and tone‚ and
knitting them tightly together on a base of mortar.
