The Rebirth of Harley Clarke delves into the lost history and highly strange status of the abandoned Harley Clarke mansion on the Lake Michigan shoreline of Evanston Ilinois. After being abandoned by one resident after another, the Gilded Age mansion attracted the interest of artist and best selling novelist Audrey Niffenegger whose romantic drama, The Time-Traveler's Wife, uses mystical and supernatural themes. Niffenegger talks about her past life as a student in the abandoned mansion when it was a Community Art Center, her dream to rescue it from its condemned and haunted status, and her challenge to turn it into a book arts education center.

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