by Elaine Marranzano – What kid didn’t have a playhouse growing up? Mine was nestled in the space between four trees where I cooked pretend meals using chunks of broken asphalt and mimosa seed pods as stand-ins for hamburgers and string beans. But perhaps no abode of childhood imagination could rival the million-dollar playhouse built in 1927 by John D. Rockefeller Jr. and his wife Abby for their six children. With indoor and outdoor swimming pools and tennis courts, basketball […]
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