I've always admired this clifftop stone house

This was originally the D. L. James house, by California architects Greene & Greene. It is now owned by Brad Pitt!

The "roots" of the house seem to be growing out jumbled stones

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I like it, but I would hesitate to ever build on a clifftop location ... it seems more often than not, nothing on a cliff (especially a seaside cliff) is permanent ... I'm shocked how close to the edge of seaside cliffs / bluffs people have been allowed to build in places like coastal CA and Sequim WA while erosion of the cliffs has always been ongoing

I walked through a house once on the western side of Whidbey Island WA and the back yard was surrounded by a chain-link fence ... the back edge of the fence was already dangling in parts over gaping holes at the edge of a clay coastal bluff probably close to 100 feet high. I would have nightmares trying to sleep in that place, especially after that 2014 mudslide in Oso WA:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Oso_mudslide

And for multiple years now we seem to see houses on coastal CA cliffs falling into the sea during the rainy season.