Word: campobello
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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...acre estate with 23-room mansion on Campobello Island, off Canada's New Brunswick coast, long the summer home of Franklin D. Roosevelt, was put up for sale in national magazine ads. Price: "$50,000 with original furnishings; $75,000 with Hyde Park items." Among the Rooseveltiana: "Museum-caliber collector's items [such as] F.D.R.'s Cabinet meeting chair, childhood drawings." Biggest inducement to a commercial-minded purchaser: "Unexcelled opportunity to create a self-supporting memorial museum...