Town Bought By American Girl Doll Creator Continues Answering the Question: 'What If History Was Cuter?'
It would be disingenuous of me to begin what will shortly be a completely informational blog that features none of this writer’s residual bitterness without the following disclaimer: I wanted a fucking Felicity doll my entire childhood and never got one because 1) we could not afford it 2) my father believed that playing with dolls in childhood directly contributed to teen pregnancy by encouraging young girls to mimic maternity at too early an age. End of disclaimer.
This leads us to the present-day where, for the past two decades, Rowland, $700 million richer after selling her doll company to Mattel, has been buying up rundown buildings and farmhouses in the town of Aurora, New York then restoring them to greater glory than even the past bestowed,“Rowland has already set up five historical inns and renovated a restaurant in this Finger Lakes town; the latest addition is a 15,000-square-foot luxury spa that opened this fall, overlooking pastoral Cayuga Lake...
And though there have been some grumblings from the 724 people who already lived in Aurora, home to Rowland’s alma mater Wells College, that the town was historical enough already, photographs reveal that the past absolutely would have been better with more lavender and some reflecting pools.
However, like the dolls of yore, most of us will likely not relish the archaic delights of Aurora, from the imported elms now lining Main Street to the decor of each of the town’s buildings, the interiors of which now match different eras of American history by way of West Elm imaginings.
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