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...Irving, restored by John D. Rockefeller Jr. (at a cost of almost $1,000,000) to the approximate condition in which the author of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow left it when he died in 1859, was opened as a public museum. Inside the quaint white pile, decked with crowstep gables, weathercocks and bronze finials, visitors found Irving's library intact, saw his shaving equipment, medicine bottles, pens and four-poster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Oct. 13, 1947 | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

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