In late 1960s-early 1970s Edward Durrell Stone designed the new campus of
what was then Windham College, now Landmark College, in Putney, VT.  They
may be very nice buildings but the general concensus of the locals seems to
be that they really don't fit the style of small town Vermont.  Ruth





At 11:22 AM -0500 3/25/02, Met History wrote:
>In 1968  Edward Durrell Stone gave a reporter for Business Week this account
>of a conversation he just  happened to overhear by two men gazing upon the
>new General Motors Building, at 58th and Fifth:  '' 'It's  more beautiful
>than the Taj Mahal,' '' one exclaimed. 'They ought to knight  the s.o.b. who
>designed it,' said the other.' '' And in 1972 Stone told  Paul Goldberger,
>for a profile in The Times on the architect:  ''There  isn't a taxi driver in
>New York who won't say the General Motors Building  is the most beautiful
>thing in the city.''
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Ruth Barton
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