The squabble troubles some preservationists, because the building the city owns and the museum occupies is a landmark rowhouse, now known as the Merchant's House Museum, that is exactly as it was in the 19th century...
The furniture, including the square piano from the 1840s in the front parlor, was left in place when the last descendant of the longtime owners died in the 1930s...
#merchants-house-museum #landmarks-commission #preservation #city-owned-property #historic-preservation
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