Word: ducal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enclave in New Canaan, built over a span of 21 years and now completed by the sculpture gallery. Johnson dislikes calling it an estate, preferring the word compound-but an estate it is, with all the seigneurial overtones. There has, in fact, been nothing like it since the ducal properties of 18th century England...