The Long View
high on a ridge outside Hamilton, Ontario, displays layers and layers of history. Although the original house — with its lookout tower, its outbuildings and its striking historic features (notably, a porte-cochère and a metal and glass extension overlooking an astonishing ginkgo tree) — date back as far as the 1830s, they have been in a steady state of transformation and expansion ever since. There is even a tumbledown water tower
