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| Reply To: | BP - "Preservationists shouldn't be neat freaks." -- Mary D |
| Date: | Thu, 27 Jul 2000 16:05:47 -0400 |
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Can you see this from your office? Will you have us up for drinks? A
pre-pignic watering?
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From: Met History [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 4:02 PM
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Subject: The most beautiful masonry in the world ...
... is the rusticated limestone south facade of the 1908 Apthorp apartment
house, covering a full block 78th/79th/Broadway/West End. Although the
facade is unusual in that the building is all-stone, it is not the intrinsic
design of the stone, but the thick, velvety, charcoal-grey coating of soot
which has been deposited on the stone over a century. This facade receives
very little weather, so the deposits are deep and rich - the urban
equivalent
of the humus of a forest floor.
The sidewalk shed is going up - it's all going to be cleaned off in August.
Go soon.
Christopher Gray
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