When they built the wooden house on the steepest side of Greer Hill, they structured it around a large stone chimney, patterned after a Roman architectural feat that kept it cool in the summer and warm in the winter.  In most places, the house was three stories tall, but where it was dug into the hillside, it was only two.  In the era it was built, it was cavernous; with few doors and lots of lofty spaces, a blueprint which was popularized by vacation chalets of the late 90s.  An unobstructed view of the slopes lured developers, and two decades later, the hillside bristled with empty, expensive rental properties, crammed between tiny 1970s A-frames.