[oyez]

I passed the Clinton library in Little Rock last week. It really looks like a double wide in the sky. I can remember back in the '60's a house trailer dealer in Memphis had a Blue Moon display home mounted some 40 feet in the air at his lot. Same effect.

[Mia T]

Thx for the confirmation. :)

The doublewide form is unambiguous. The architect's inside joke is, well, plastered right on the outside; yet the trailerable two not only missed it utterly--they chose it as their monument to themselves. How delicious.

[MeekOneGOP]

THE BLACK LANDMARK THE CLINTON LIEBRARY RAZED

You think I’m kidding?
They really did tear that down.
Click here.

Excerpt:

Who is to blame when a historic landmark is lost? Part of the blame belongs to a throw-away society that places little premium on historical structures. Some of the blame must accrue to preservationists and historians who failed to recognize the significance of this structure hidden within May Supply Company. Most of the blame, however, must go to the Clinton Library Foundation and the City of Little Rock, neither of whom showed any evidence of a good faith effort to evaluate various options for keeping the station or moving a smaller representative section to a nearby site. One must also wonder why Clinton library site engineers failed to call attention to this historical building during the early stages of the library design. Site engineers had conducted exhaustive surveys of the area, surveys which had given them access to this building while it was cocooned within other structures and effectively hidden from the public. Were the survey engineers incapable of recognizing an unquestionably historic structure, or was their silence a deliberate calculated effort to conceal details of a landmark which they considered expendible?