An accomplished artist and strongly preservation-minded individual, Hall sorted and donated the voluminous archive of family papers that he found in the house, and entertained many notable people of the age including Henry Miller, Lyle Saxon, Cecil B. DeMille, Emily Post, and Walt Disney. At the end of _his_ life, Hall donated the house and garden to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which has owned and operated it to the present. <sep>, Pronoun: his