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Next time you're leaving your apartment at the Dakota, take a right down 72nd
to the Hotel Olcott, 27 West 72nd (George F. Pelham, 1925). It has a new/old
marquise (by Historical Arts & Castings of Utah), but today I noticed the
limestone colonettes on the 1st/2nd floors, which are about 5 inches in
diameter.
These half-round columns (engaged) are smooth on the west side, but are
noticeably pitted and rough on the east side, with abrasion down perhaps a
mm or two. I assume that this differential weathering is, indeed, a weather
result, but:
1. I thought our strongest "weather" was from the west, and,
2. I have never seen such a disparity on a single piece of stone.
Tiny Tim used to live at the Olcott.
Christopher Gray
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