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It is almost invisible now, a ghost of a building squatting in the shade of looming hemlocks at the edge of the highway. Though it’s now rundown and overgrown, the brooding brilliance of the place endures. You still can see its crisp, horizontal lines formed by the distinctive, rough-hewn rocks, laid by hand three-quarters of …

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Their Shadyside home was one of the city’s finest, sequestered at the end of a leafy cul-de-sac. The grounds included a stone courtyard, large pool and formal rose garden that Tim and Audrey Hillman Fisher often used for the many benefits and parties they hosted. [ngg src=”galleries” ids=”5″ display=”basic_thumbnail” thumbnail_crop=”0″] So invariably, the first question …

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From the outside, the stone and shingle cottage could easily be perched along a bucolic lane in the Cotswolds instead of a quiet road in Fox Chapel. That’s what makes the inside all the more remarkable. [ngg src=”galleries” ids=”9″ display=”basic_thumbnail” thumbnail_crop=”0″] Eschewing the more traditional approach suggested by such architecture, designer Kathleen Clements devised a …

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When Paul O’Neill was appointed Secretary of the Treasury in 2001, he planned to secure a pied-á-terre in Washington, retain his main residence in Pittsburgh and, with his wife, Nancy, vacation at their Maryland beach house. But finding an acceptable home in the capital proved to be somewhat difficult. [ngg src=”galleries” ids=”10″ display=”basic_thumbnail” thumbnail_crop=”0″] A …

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