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> Important:  What JDR boardroom still survives in NYC, hole-drilled or
> not?

2 Broadway - leastways that is what the facilities people at the time
(8-10 yrs ago?) told me it was. Nice view south out over the NY Harbor.

> PS Two or three rooms from JDR's townhouse at 4 West 54th Street were
> salvaged in 1939 and reinstalled at the Museum of the City of New York
> - you must know them.  They are a festival of birds-eye maple and
> other Victorian decor.   But completely airless, like being trapped on
> the capsized Utah, waiting for slow death, after the Pearl Harbor attack.

Don't know them. Will go looking for them sometime.

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