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Vivid Living

You could easily miss the house.

Glimpsed from a narrow roadway outside Saratoga Springs, Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample’s multigenerational family retreat seems not unlike the many barns that dot upstate New York. And sometimes, when weather conditions are just so, its metal cladding nearly disappears into the sky. But careful observers will be rewarded for taking a closer look. Underneath its agricultural complexion, the building represents an intellectually

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