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(source)Monday, April 18, 2011
A Sad Weekend for Long Island
It was a sad weekend for Long Island, as the beautiful Land's End mansion, designed by Stanford White, of the storied firm McKim, Mead & White, was demolished to make way for a subdivision of McMansions. Progress is one thing, several McMansions that are likely to stagnate on the market are another.
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I'm interning at a non-profit that's in historic preservation. Go old stuff!
woo, lucky!!
This really saddens me. I hate how so many people are okay with destroying beautiful, old buildings. It was a huge problem for me when I was living in Istanbul a few years ago and just watching gorgeous seaside home after gorgeous seaside home get scheduled for demolition.
I live in Singapore, where stuff like this happens all the time. Old buildings full of colonial history are torn down to make way for yet another mall or high rise condo. Decisions here are made for money, not for history/memories.
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