Sugar Creek Valley

About the Space

Tucked into a wildlife corridor on the edge of the Ozark mountains, there is a transcendence when you turn off the highway to the dirt road on the way to the property. An expansive valley unfolds in front of you, struck by the fields of grass you open up, broadening your horizon to the forested hills beyond you lighten. Entering the gate to The Backyard, an estate tucked into the north hills of the valley, a long paved drive stretches out in front of you. Across a dry creek and up a hill, the landscape opens up to the homesite nestled in the trees. Built in 2021, the house is a Georgian American with an homage to its Arkansas roots. Humble beauty leaving you wonder how long it had been here or if it was always a part of the landscape. Formed from fieldstone and cypress, it’s a one of a kind. Taking a hike down the windy hillside trial, you first pass a cedar-fenced garden and greenhouse. Further down the hill, horses grazing in a pasture lined by traditional wood fencing. A stable and arena fully form the base of the hollow in which it sits, cradled between the treed hills and valley beyond. A woodland forest unincumbered by development, this 70 acre property looks lazily onto Sugar Creek valley below. Canopied trails take you to spring water that gurgles down hills at the back of the property and during rainy season the creeks flanking the East and West hollows swell with rushing water. The home was created to reflect the light and nature in both an outward and inward direction. Commercial sized skylights in the breezeway and above the kitchen table give you a backdrop of all four seasons in the high country of Northwest Arkansas. Citrus trees in the orangery line the dinning table and exude a bright English country house even on the coldest winter day. Unpolluted by light at night, the cycles of the moon glow inside and crystal clear stars can be seen throughout the house including up above the dining table for a dinner under the stars. Just 15 minutes from the historic Bentonville square, the world renowned Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and home of the Bentonville Film Festival, the views and vantage points in proximity are limitless.