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Posted by Brighton Private on Tue Aug 1 14:27:08 2006, in response to Re: 49th Street-Broadway, posted by Terrapin Station on Thu Jul 27 18:34:13 2006. Interestingly enough, the five elements of historic preservation in the article you cite wouldn't necessarily apply to the stations in question:The building which is a work of art: the product of a distinct and outstanding creative mind. [Esthetic value] The building which... possesses in a pronounced form the characteristic virtues of the school of design which produced it. [Contextual value] The building which, of no great artistic merit, is either of significant antiquity or a composition of fragmentary beauties welded together in the course of time. [Picturesque value] The building which has been the scene of great events or the labours of great men. [Associative value] The building whose only virtue is that in a bleak tract of modernity it alone gives depth of time. [Memorial value] But it's clear the foregoing criteria were meant to apply to individual structures. I would argue that the design integrity (and quality) of the original stations as a composition -- that is, as a group -- deserve protection, even if a given station does not stand out when compared with another. This is the same theory under which historic districts, rather than specific buildings, are landmarked and preserved. |
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