The Legacy

For over 40 years, the Edmondsons took immaculate care of their home. It shows few signs of its half-century age, due in part to the robust building materials of clay tile and stucco, which are unique to Jones’s oeuvre. In a May 2009 story published in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, Don Edmondson said “After nearly 30 years in the home, we love it as much today as we did when we first moved in it. It truly is like living in, and with, a work of art.”

And love it they did.

Following Ellen’s passing in 2019, Don continued to live in the home until his death in 2020. The property was listed for sale by the Edmondson estate in the Summer of 2022, and was purchased in January 2023 by Jerry Goux and Sherry Tsepas Goux, along with a small group of family.

The husband and wife architects from Atlanta, Georgia have a combined 50+ years of experience in modern architectural design and construction and are currently leading the restoration and preservation efforts.

The couple have long admired the work of Fay Jones, since they were in architecture school together at Georgia Tech. In 2022, they were married in Thorncrown Chapel, Jones’s most famous work. Part of their journey now is to honor Don and Ellen by restoring and preserving the home they loved so much, and to honor Fay Jones by opening the home to a wider audience of students, scholars, researchers, artists, and lovers of architecture, for all to benefit.

Concurrent with this documentary, Sherry is pursuing a PhD in architecture at Georgia Tech, the subject of her study is the Fay Jones Edmondson House, and the use of modern technology, such as 3D laser scanning, Computer Aided Design (CAD), and Computer Numerical Control (CNC) in preserving the legacy of modernist design. This documentary will benefit from her extensive research at the University of Arkansas, Georgia Institute of Technology, and elsewhere.