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Ericson personally demonstrated to the craftsmen building his house. The wooden doors inside the house are interesting and unusually shaped: no two are identical. One year after Ericson's sudden death in 1936, Mrs. Lillian Ericson sold the house to Richard and Katherine Yates, and it has since changed hands six more times. In 2002, it underwent a major renovation and refurbishing, and much of the original look was restored. Two of the Iverd paintings are still hanging in the house today, including "Fall" above the living room fireplace and one of his "Saturday Evening Post" covers above the studio fireplace in the room he used for paintings.
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