Where Asheville's mountain air carries the scent of cedar and wet stone, Athens trades elevation for a different kind of gravitas — the columned porticos and honey-colored limestone that echo through its university streets find a quieter cousin in the way this home's stacked-stone façade anchors itself to the rolling Prospect hillside with classical weight. The proportions shift here, the rooflines lengthen, and the symmetry of the front elevation reads less like Appalachian lodge and more like a Greek Revival plantation house that wandered north along the Ohio River and decided to stay. Inside, that discipline holds — the wide-plank hardwoods run in unbroken lines through the formal rooms, pulling the eye toward tall windows that frame the property's mature canopy the way a gallery wall frames its centerpiece. But symmetry, as Atlanta will soon remind us, is only the opening argument.