Posted Nov 11, 2014, 4:54 PM
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A gruff individual.
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Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Greenville, SC - "Birthplace of the light switch rave"
Posts: 13,447
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Originally Posted by TallCoolOne
It's not just it's massive-ness, and masonry, and the carvings, and the sculptures of the 4 known "races" of the world, and the fact it took 30 yrs to build, but its placement perfectly at the center of William Penn's grid city block design, it's placement looking down the Parkway to the Art Museum and vice versa, and the fact ol' Billy Penn gets to overlook his city forever and ever high atop, and then the whole "you can't build taller than City Hall" agreement that held for much of the 20th century. And that bright yellow clock at night... and now also, the area surrounding it has been completed re-done and is worthy of City Hall's broad shoulders. Terrific history. An American treasure.
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This is the perfectionist in me speaking, but when you look at a map, the actual square in which the city hall sits is a little off-kilter to the west, and the placement of the building is slightly off to the south. Perfect building, imperfect placement, which just drives me right up the fucking wall. I feel the same way about the Washington Monument.
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"To sustain the life of a large, modern city in this cloying, clinging heat is an amazing achievement. It is no wonder that the white men and women in Greenville walk with a slow, dragging pride, as if they had taken up a challenge and intended to defy it without end." -- Rebecca West for The New Yorker, 1947
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