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Reportedly painted over on curt instructions from Vanderbilt's wife, the mural will henceforth be left unwhitewashed for what the Park Service described as "historical and interpretive reason."

From Time Magazine Archive

On the top of this hill there stands a white church with an elegant Lombard campanile—the campanile left unwhitewashed.

From Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino by Butler, Samuel

Sonia was standing in dejection, looking intently out of the window, but from it she could see nothing but the unwhitewashed blank wall of the next house.

From Crime and Punishment by Garnett, Constance

The massy pillars were left unviolated by the petty hand of household neatness: they stood severe in monumental granite, unwhitewashed, unstuccoed, without tricks or frippery.

From Walladmor: And Now Freely Translated from the German into English. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. by De Quincey, Thomas

Damascus, like most Eastern towns, has nothing to boast of in the outside appearance of its rough unwhitewashed houses. 

From The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon by Risk Allah, Habeeb