About an hour and 45 minutes north of Manhattan sits the village of Millbrook, N.Y. In the 1960s, a sprawling American Queen Anne mansion just outside the village became something of a counterculture landmark and the inspiration for a jazz classic by Charles Mingus. Built in 1912, the house and the 2,500-acre estate was acquired at the start of the 1960…
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