Monday, August 6, 2012

preservation versus McMansion

An update from the Wall Street Journal here.





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  1. I wonder why it took an Englishman to highlight this issue?

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  2. To be fair, Slate had an article back in September, and Alex Ross posted about it then as well. But I guess nothing much came of all that, so props to Lebrecht for raising it again.

    The thing about Redding is it has always been this semi-secret haven for artists and musicians. (And the line in the article about how Leonard Bernstein would have written a check is probably true, b/c at one point, iirc, he was living down the hill.) So one could argue that a little enshrining is overdue.

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    1. This is where some of our rich and influential families come in handy! eg. Prince Charles and Dumphries House or Joanna Lumley with the Peter Pan Moat Brae Trust.

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