Photo missing -- Do you have one that we can use? -- Washington Irving, author of 'Rip Van Winkle' and 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,' was one of America's leading writers of the Romantic era. He bought a century-old cottage overlooking the Hudson River in 1835, and remodeled it into his dream house, Sunnyside. Purchased by the Rockefellers in 1945 and restored to
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