Tradition: Rescued Monument

Progress has always been the great bulldozer, demolishing Greek temples for paving stones and palace walls for slums. How in the New World is the graceful Georgian mansion to withstand the shopping center, or the columned grandeur of Pennsylvania Station to prevail against the flat, glass-curtain wall?

But all over the U.S., citizens are increasingly concerned to hand down to future generations some of the architectural heritage of America's past, and are joining forces to find the ways and means. Their latest victory, and one of the most notable of all, has just been won in the Connecticut industrial and...

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