On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Bruce.Barrett wrote:

>                 "I thought this was just an interesting photo."
>
>                 Thanks Pam. I turned it into to a Windows Bitmap and have it
> as a wallpaper selection. It looks great, but where did all that dust come
> from?

Probably from all the urban coal burning they did in those days.  But
isn't that a rendering, not a photo?

I thought about using the Grand Central picture as you did, but decided to
stay with my current desktop wallpaper, which is this photo:

    http://www.potifos.com/images/wells.jpg

That's the second Wells Hall at Michigan State University, built 1907 to
replace one that burned; designed Titanic-like with fire walls between the
six independent sections; later re-used as an office building; demolished
1966.  It's an example of the style I like to call "Ragtime Georgian".

Watching the demolition as a child, I was very surprised to see that those
big dentil cornices were fabricated from sheet metal.

MSU's current Wells Hall, a classroom and office building built in the
late 1960s, is across the river from this site.

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