Comments on: Don’t Kill the Queen’s Pier http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2009/11/10/dont-kill-the-queens-pier/ Exploring urban life through word and photography Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:47:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Christopher Szabla http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2009/11/10/dont-kill-the-queens-pier/comment-page-1/#comment-312347 Christopher Szabla Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:31:58 +0000 http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/?p=5534#comment-312347 What's interesting is that this debate in historic preservation has shifted away from landmarks and has begun to affect the way people think about "restoring" vernacular architecture as well. The NYT just did a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/realestate/15scapes.html" rel="nofollow">feature on Columbia architectural historian Andrew Dolkart's new book celebrating early 20th century facelifts of Greenwich Village brownstones</a>, which are occasionally threatened by the desire to throw the buildings back to their 19th century state. It'll get even more interesting when historians start disputing the restoration of storefronts that got covered by mall-imitation corrugated steel or bricked up for housing in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. What’s interesting is that this debate in historic preservation has shifted away from landmarks and has begun to affect the way people think about “restoring” vernacular architecture as well. The NYT just did a feature on Columbia architectural historian Andrew Dolkart’s new book celebrating early 20th century facelifts of Greenwich Village brownstones, which are occasionally threatened by the desire to throw the buildings back to their 19th century state.

It’ll get even more interesting when historians start disputing the restoration of storefronts that got covered by mall-imitation corrugated steel or bricked up for housing in the 60s, 70s, and 80s.

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