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This mansion was called Hildene, and another great American family owned it -- the descendants of President Abraham Lincoln.
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Sister Mary Lincoln "Peggy 'Beckwith became an eccentric recluse on the family estate in Vermont (called Hildene, which Peggy inherited following the death of her grandmother, Mary Harlan Lincoln).
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Decades of neglect had finally caught up with Hildene.
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One day, a friend of the Lincoln family was invited to tea at Hildene.
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Lincoln's son, Robert Todd Lincoln, built Hildene in 1903, in Manchester, Vermont.
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Lincoln died in his bed at Hildene in 1926 at the age of eighty-two.
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In Manchester, Vermont, he built a vast estate, Hildene, which he curiously called his "ancestral home."
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Peggy left Hildene to the Christian Science Church, which in 1978 sold it to a private organization, The Friends of Hildene.
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Peggy Beckwith was an eccentric recluse who lived out her days at Hildene.
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Robert Lincoln and his wife, Mary Harlan Lincoln, lived in high style at Hildene.
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