> -----Original Message-----
> From: Met History
> Sent: Monday, November 20, 2000 8:54 AM
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> Subject: Some ugly lead pencil marks were made upon the fresh white
> plastering....
>
>
> The New York Times, August 24, 1883:
>
<snip>

> Mr. Krebel,
> the architect [no listing for any "Krebel" in NYC directory],

Well, c'mon.  Whattaya think the internet is for; just do a national search
on the white pages.  Everything's on the internet.  He's probably in
Philadelphia.

> The greater part of the plastering on the Dakota flats has already been
> completed.  About 30 plasterers were at work in the upper stories
> yesterday....

Gee.  Are there even 30 plasterers left in the country?

We should be so lucky to only have ugly lead pencil marks on EIFS.  Around
the NCSU campus, I mostly see ugly lead pencils stabbed into the stuff.  If
done properly, you can tell the time from the shadow....
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