PhiloxeniaHouse.

Last winter, we walked through a small house at the edge of Athens that had stood largely empty for years. The roof needed work. The shutters were stiff. But the courtyard — narrow, sunlit, framed by an old vine — held the kind of stillness only a Greek garden holds. We stood there a long time.

The house had been given to the Foundation by Evellyn Tsiadis, in loving memory of her late husband Steve, whose family had summered in this very courtyard two generations before. Her gift, freely offered, is the foundation on which everything that follows is built. The property now carries his memory.

We have spent the year since asking what such a house could become. The answer arrived in a single image: a small clay statuette, found inside the house before renovation, of a woman with arms outstretched in welcome. We adapted her shape into a mark we call Evellyn's Embrace — and the project took its form from her gesture.

Around the house, we will build The Legacy Garden. A guest house, a rooftop terrace, a children's play area, outdoor salons, herb beds, lavender, planters, named trees, a wall of bricks engraved with the names of immigrant ancestors and the journeys they made. Every element open to a named gift; every gift a permanent part of the place.

This prospectus is our invitation. We hope you'll read it slowly, as we hope the house itself will be lived in slowly, for many years to come.