ruminations about architecture and design

Thursday, March 10, 2011

house on long island about to meet its destiny

According to some recent stories, the house that served as the model for the Buchanan residence in The Great Gatsby is going to be torn down. So it goes, and judging from the photographs, its no big loss, altghouh I am sure that there are still a few people left alive who have good memories of the place. More significantly, it has achieved immortality in literature, although in a way that is sad rather than heroic.

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