In a message dated 3/25/00 12:57:54 PM, [log in to unmask] writes: <<"In 1983 the Schermerhorn Row block [a Federal style row of 1811 brick warehouses] was restored - or perhaps over-restored. In 1983 Paul Goldberger, the architecture critic for The New York Times, said 'One of the city's real treasures, a vibrant pile of buildings that seemed almost to pulsate with the memories of the generations of riverfront commerce it contained, the row has been turned ... into something flat and dull.' " The restoration architect, Jan Hird Pokorny, thinks Goldberger's remarks were shallow and unfair. Both he and Jack Beyer - who is now doing further work on Schermerhorn Row - say that the 1983 restoration was fine, and neither would do it any different today, if given the opportunity. Yet, to my eye also, the restored Schermerhorn Row is indeed "flat and dull". Can anyone on the list better analyze this discrepancy? Christopher Gray (deckhand, SS James Davidson, 1969) >> Simple: You are right and he (