Garden with fountain, crepe myrtles and clipped boxwoods

While her husband fell hard for the building’s bones, for Allison Smith it was the grounds—“beautiful, private, lush and green,” she says—that captivated her. The mounded shrubs—mostly boxwoods—give structure and formality to the gardens, which now have a more free-flowing feel thanks to visionary updates by landscape architect Marley Fields.

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