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If you re frequently on the upper East Side, you may have noticed a lovely, if somewhat unusual house overlooking a grassy triangle behind Columbia St. Mary s Hospital, where Wahl and Terrace Avenues come together. That s the house that renowned architect Alfred C. Clas designed as his retirement home.