Requiem for a dollhouse: Handmade replica of a 1950s Bensenville ranch house is too big to donate, too precious to toss

But now she is 75, and she wonders what will become of the dollhouse that occupies a room in her Fredericksburg, Virginia, home. She has no children to whom she can leave it, her sister doesn’t have room for it, and though she believes it should be preserved as a piece of postwar suburban history, she’s found no takers among Illinois historical societies.