 Grainger was a life @-@ long atheist and believed he would only endure in the body of work he left behind . To assist that survival he established the Grainger Museum , which was given little attention before the mid @-@ 1970s ; it was initially regarded as evidence either of an over @-@ large ego or of extreme eccentricity . Since then the University of Melbourne 's commitment to the museum has , Covell asserts , " rescued [ it ] permanently from academic denigration and belittlement " . Its vast quantities of materials have been used to investigate not only Grainger 's life and works , but those of contemporaries whom Grainger had known : Grieg , Delius , Scott and others . The Grainger home at 7 Cromwell Place , White Plains , New York , is now the Percy Grainger Library and is a further repository of memorabilia and historic performance material , open to researchers and visitors . 
