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The General Lew Wallace Study & Museum, formerly known as the Ben-Hur Museum, is located in Crawfordsville, Indiana.

It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976, and in 2008 was awarded a National Medal from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services.

It is located in the Elston Grove Historic District.

The museum is associated with the life of Lew Wallace and his novel .

The study, designed by Wallace, and accompanying carriage house are the only structures pertaining to Lew Wallace that have retained historical integrity.

Both of these buildings now make up the museum and exhibit many of the artifacts that Wallace used during his lifetime, as well as many objects pertaining to his literary legacy.

Guided tours of the study are available for a small admission fee; the Carriage House Interpretive Center and grounds are open to the public free of charge.

Ben-Hur was an 1899 theatrical adaption of the novel (1880) by Lew Wallace.

The play was dramatized by William W.

Young and produced by Marc Klaw and A. L.

Erlanger.

Inspired by the success of Wallace's popular novel, the stage production was notable for its elaborate use of spectacle.

It had six acts with incidental music written by American composer Edgar Stillman Kelley.

The stage production opened at the Broadway Theater in New York City on November 29, 1899, and became a hit Broadway show.

Traveling versions of the production, including a national tour that ran for twenty-one years, played in the United States, Great Britain, and Australia.

By the end of its run in April 1920, the play had been seen by more than twenty million people and earned over $10 million at the box office.

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