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Vast engineering and earthwork—not to mention the demolition of a church and eviction of neighbors—was required to pull off this seemingly effortless play of space.
Altitude was the first air conditioner. Come summer since time immemorial, people around the globe—those who could afford it, at least—have fled malarial cities to seek refuge in cool verdant hills. New Yorkers of Edith Wharton’s generation repaired to the Adirond… (View original article)