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The more I looked at this house from all angles, I thought of my conversations with Fay Jones and my visits, years ago, with Alice Walton, to the magnificent church he designed in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The Grajales-Kirschner house, like the church, is set in pastoral splendor by a beautiful pond, the house in a small English park. The seven acre site has been cleared and planted with clusters of old trees and large lawns by a pond hearkening to romantic sylvan 18th century ideals, themselves nurtured by the ancients' fastidious placement of temples and villas. Phifer's house could be placed in any of the great gardens of the age of enlightenment because it is an object of both profound contemplation and an amusing pavilion, with staggering punch. After all, these great gardens of yore are peopled with columns affixed to any number of follies, but not one garden, however imperial, had such a building as this, had HYLAND

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