[1691] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: [Mit-talk] Cashier's Office mural going away
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean P. Robinson)
Wed Dec 14 12:29:26 2005
From: "Sean P. Robinson" <spatrick@mit.edu>
To: "John Hawkinson" <jhawk@mit.edu>, "Courtney Shiley" <cshiley@mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 12:07:22 -0500
cc: mit-talk@mit.edu
Errors-To: mit-talk-bounces@mit.edu
Not to be difficult, or beat a dead horse, but:
>> Sawzalling it out of the wall and moving it is clearly difficult and
>> expensive...
>
>Err, I would say that sawzalling it out of the wall would probably be
>incredibly easy, actually... Especially if you were willing to acccept
>a seam or two.
Most of the old interior walls in the main buildings are plaster-coated
terracotta blocks, or a similar material, which tend to shatter when cut
into, rather than leave a clean edge. That makes it a pain to, for example,
add a new door or window to an old wall without totally destroying the wall.
Unless the Dollar Bill wall was installed in a later renovation (post, say,
1935), which is unlikely IMHO, it would be really hard to remove and
transport intact.
Ok, there's a factoid which will hopefully become irrelvant when the
decision is made to leave this important MIT landmark in place.
++Sean Robinson
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