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.
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.