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Trump’s Renovation Spree Is Spreading to More Washington Landmarks​

Plans to paint famed federal building white and build White House ballroom trigger legal challenges​


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“… The court proceedings caused a stir after the plaintiffs submitted a sworn declaration from a former GSA official who said the White House is soliciting bids to demolish several historic office buildings in Washington. The claimed targets included a Brutalist structure that houses the Department of Housing and Urban Development and two buildings that contain historically important murals inside that were commissioned during the New Deal era.

The report alarmed art historians, who are now working to get more information. Laura Katzman, a James Madison University art-history professor, said she and others fear Trump will tear down the buildings before the fragile artwork can be preserved. “We know he’s capable of doing things without approval,” said Katzman, who wrote an official brochure about the Ben Shahn murals in one of the buildings in the 1990s.…”

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