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Gerry Jones Slingman House

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 Natural Wonder Gerry Jones was quoted as saying  "no one would buy the lot because architects and engineers told buyers that it was unbuildable without moving boulders at extraordinary excavation cost. I bridged the house over the boulders, the first bridge house in Arizona, moved one small boulder and saved thousands by using the boulders for bearing in lieu of a standard foundation," Jones explains.Called the Slingman House  after the original owners,reached by a bridge. or tunnel.  Today he is in his late nineties still designing homes.  He brought his expertise to Taliesin West’s Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, where, for 17 years, he taught extreme terrain architecture.