The structure of the centrosymmetric title compound, C(8)H(10)O(2), originally determined by Goodwin et al. [Acta Cryst.(1950), 3, 279-284], has been redetermined to modern standards of precision to aid in its use as a model compound for (13)C chemical-shift tensor measurements in single-crystal NMR studies. In the crystal structure, a C-H⋯O inter-action helps to establish the packing.