We've heard of airplanes and mountaineers being preserved in the icy depths of glaciers and snowfields.  Is the Ed Sullivan Theater an example of preservation by ice box?  Can a powerful HVAC system result in the preservation of historic fabric?  Just the cold facts, please.
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Dan Becker, Exec. Dir., RHDC
Raleigh Historic Districts Commission
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Besides which, he and his crew are the new "spirit of the old Ed Sullivan
theater"...what made its rehab possible.  Lesson to be learned:  it's the
"spirit" of the rehab that drives the project as much as blind adherance to
the particulars of the Standards.