The New York Times has a story about one of my heroes, Leonard Bernstein, and his room where he composed. It's all being preserved at Indiana University.
From the story...
“I can see him standing there for hours, orchestrating,” he said of his father. Bernstein also had a studio at the Dakota on Central Park West, where the family had an apartment. But most of his composing took place at the Fairfield house, which remains in the Bernstein family.
Some objects will go on temporary display soon at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University in Bloomington. The school is building a new complex, and the room may be installed there or in current administrative offices, Alain Barker, a school spokesman, said. Items would be placed “in substantially the same arrangement” as existed in the Fairfield studio, he added. The university hopes the full display will be open next year.
Here's a bit of Bernstein, conducting his own "Candide":
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