On the whole, I'm glad that the Gropius house has endured and has been preserved. Additionally, I would have no objection if a few pennies of my tax dollars were spent on its maintenance. Preservation architecture is an important niche in the profession, and the designation of a Historic Landmark should not be taken lightly.
In this respect, the town of Lincoln has all the protected buildings it needs. Boston, has its share, and Quincy also. The legacy of modern architecture is being preserved in the methods and styles of current professional practice, and in that respect, its memory is solid for at least a few hundred years. The most fitting tribute to the spirit of modernism would be a rollback of some of the protections afforded to entire neighborhoods in certain parts of the country. But, then, that is only the opinion of towers of ilium.
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