Word: mansion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PRINCETON--It's not a mansion with a swimming pool out back. It's not a cabin in the mountains. It's not even a one-room apartment...
When alumni of Atlanta's Emory University opened the latest mailing from Publishers Clearing House, many were surprised to see a picture of Lullwater House, the sprawling mansion where the school's president lives. Accompanying the photo were the words, "Win It All January 29!" Emory officials quickly denied they were raffling off the president's digs. For its part, the magazine-subscription house pointed out that the picture of Lullwater, which the company says it obtained from a photo agency, was intended only to suggest that whoever wins the contest's $10 million grand prize might wind...
Built around 1907, the Tudor-Gothic mansion was a fine example of careful stonework and superbly finished interiors, set down on a luxuriant plot of waterfront lawn on Jamaica Bay. It began as a residence for Henry Heinschiemer, an eccentric New York banker whose security system included a sign that read, GENTLE STRANGER TURN BACK. When the age of grand living had passed it by, the big home became a hospital for joint diseases, then a private school for retarded children and later a rabbinical school. Now it is a bag lady of a building. A fire has destroyed much...
After the mansion is razed, the property will become a municipal park. Says Israel, waving his chisel to emphasize the point: "The preservationists get upset when old places like this are plowed under. We come in and save what we can. All of this stuff will have a new life. It'll be reused in restaurants, offices and private homes...
...ache in the reader's gut. Francis was drab and cramped on the outside, that husk of a booze-wracked body, but he didn't live there. He came to life inside, with way too many other people -- the loves, enemies and chances he had lost -- in the decaying mansion of his memories. What a lovely movie might dwell there...