I feel that the Fed was an excellent candidate for facade cleaning.  The
heavily soiled sandstone randomly mixed with lightly soiled, virtually clean
limestone, created a black and white checkerboard that was visually very
distracting from the architechural lines of the building.  Now that it is
clean, the RICH warm colors of the Briar Hill Sandstone blend beautifully
with the Limestone.  Note the emphasis on the word rich!  Convinced?

Mark Sherman
Quintek Corporation
www.quintek.net

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Subject: Michael, a cleaner Federal Reserve Bank is up to you!


Anyone seen the cleaning underway on the Federal Reserve Bank in lower
Manhattan (the Florentine palazzo)?   Word on the street is that the
ancient,
blackened stones looked much more convincing as a Renaissance money chamber
than the freshly cleaned limestone.

Any other opinions?

Best,  Christopher Gray
(Remembers his mother cursing the new Pan Am building, but liked the steak
at
the "Sky Club".)