You go to gaze through the hedgerows surrounding those Addison Mizner-designed, pink-stucco villas, built in the Roaring '20s.

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Its rustic-chic white-planked living room is vintage Howard Backen, the architect-designer who is to Napa Valley's now ubiquitous New England barn vernacular what Addison Mizner was to the South Florida hacienda.

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Kluge, then 80, got a town council that usually cares about architectural treasures and tries to limit vast compounds and giant mansions, to approve his purchase of an entire street leading to five adjacent properties, then allowed him to level an Addison Mizner -designed house to make way for 20, 000-square-foot digs.

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