What is the House like today?

The House today is basically a private home, left almost exactly as it was when Lucille Armstrong lived there, and very much the way it was when Louis lived there. In 1991, Louis’s scrapbooks, manuscripts, tapes, and other such materials were taken out of closets and the attic and brought to the Queens College campus so that they could be preserved, cataloged, and made available to the public. In 2002, repairs, conservation and restoration work was performed before the Museum opened in 2003 (see the next question). But other than that, the House remains essentially unchanged.