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    Mountain Cottage Masterpiece

    Aug 06, 2019 3 minutes
    BY SUZANNA LOGAN
    PHOTOGRAPHY BY ROGER WADE

    Washington’s Cle Elum River Valley, due east of the Cascade Mountain Range, is known as much for its million-dollar houses as its million-dollar views. Rising up against the landscape, these monolithic structures vie for your visual attention against the majesty of nature. But at least one home—a modest mountain cottage owned by John and Monica McArthur—knows its place among the grandeur and is content to coexist rather than compete.

    Interestingly, the home’s quiet presence was a happy accident. After purchasing seven acres in Colorado, the couple had

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