The New Amsterdam Room, originally the men's smoking retreat, is a marvelous elliptical space ringed with rotund plaster columns resembling gray Caen stone, and murals of New York from Dutch days to 1900.

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Instead of working on his thesis, Keith spent most of two years holed up in the family garage, stripping the body off a Triumph Spitfire and building a new shell from scratch, using foam and 700 pounds of plaster of paris.

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