In a message dated 1/3/2006 3:37:30 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
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PS Two or three rooms from JDR's townhouse at 4 West 54th Street were
salvaged in 1939 and reinstalled
Have they landmarked Nelson's "launching pad"?
BTW- the interior of the Merchant's House Museum is landmarked.
Twybil
I saw Nelson's launching pad, which was next to my first and most glorious
but alas never repeated project, US Trust at 9-11 W 54, about a year after
he...took off. It was a remarkably shabby back-parlor sort of room which
probably was nice until he covered it in (travertine?-) beige paint.
Ralph