March 16, 2007
A Reservoir of Records
What Kevin Bone refers to as "one of the great civil-engineering archives anywhere" is housed not in a domed university library or a grand Beaux Arts mansion, but above a truck bay in a featureless Manhattan building whose drab hallways are lined with utility-crew lockers. Few people know the archive exists, and almost no one visits.
But here is Mr. Bone, a professor of architecture at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, peering over his glasses at thick binders of
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