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Newspaper Article
Dark Spots Mar an Aging, Yet Exquisite, Face
2007
Overview
''In stone it would be magnificent,'' he said, but in terra cotta, ''it would look like a 5-and-10-cent store proposition.'' A 1912 ad by the Atlantic Terra Cotta Company in The Real Estate Record and Guide boasted, ''Cream color in another material would be dark and dirty after a few years' exposure.'' Mr. [Paul Starrett]'s misgivings were well founded. In his 1938 book he recalled, apparently from years earlier, ''the spectacle of the upper part of the Woolworth Building, wired up with metal mesh to catch the falling terra cotta.''
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New York Times Company
