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> Thomas Hastings, in recommending against the cleaning the Vermont 
> marble of his grand New York Public Library:
>  
> "The color mellowed with time is more interesting than made new again, 
> especially because the stone in its original condition shows great 
> blotches of black or gray.  I feel that a building of this character 
> should be allowed to age naturally, especially as it will probably 
> live so long that successive ages would injure the material, carving, 
> &c., by repeated cleaning."
>  
> (The New York Times September 18, 1926)
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Wow, incredibly prescient re: the damage of repeated intervention and 
the desire to maintain the natural weathering as a portion of the 
architect's aesthetic. Nice.

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