One recent Sunday morning, Chuck Callan was taking out the garbage from his stately Victorian home and clad only in dirty gardening shorts when a motorist startled him by leaning out her car window and snapping pictures.

最近一个星期天的早晨，卡伦(Chuck Callan)从自家那幢富丽堂皇的维多利亚风格大宅里走出去倒垃圾，身上只穿了一条脏的大裤衩。突然，一个从车窗中探出头拍照的人把他吓了一跳。

'Had I known, I would have dressed,'' said Mr. Callan, a senior vice president of Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc. The gawker wasn't interested in the half-naked executive. Her subject was his Grand view-on-Hudson home岸a residence where Betty Friedan wrote 'The Feminine Mystique,'' the groundbreaking 1963 book that launched the modern feminist movement.

在Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc.担任高级副总裁的卡伦说：“早知道我就把衣服穿好了。不过，看客对这位半裸的高管并不感兴趣。她关注的是卡伦那幢可饱览哈德逊河(Hudson)美景的大宅──著名女权主义作家弗里丹(Betty Friedan)曾在这幢房子里撰写《女性迷思》(The Feminine Mystique)一书，这部突破性的著作于1963年出版，开启了现代女权主义运动的先河。

Owning a famous figure's home offers both perils and pleasures. Tourists eat into privacy, and contractors savvy about historically sensitive renovations eat into the pocketbook. On the other hand, there's the unique thrill of living under the same roof as someone who made an indelible mark on U.S. history. And experts say a well-preserved historic house generally gains value.

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