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Show Movement Is on Foot to Save Historic Buildings New York. A movement to preserve pre-serve this country's historically and architecturally important buildings has been started by the American Institute In-stitute of Architects with the opening of a national survey of these structures. struc-tures. The institute's committee on the preservation of historic building, headed head-ed by Leicester B. Holland, chairman, is compiling a list of such buildings. This list will be subdivided into lists applying directly to the various states and cities. For Inclusion In the Atlantic seaboard sea-board tabulation, according to Doctor Holland, only buildings at least one hundred years old will be considered. No structure built later than 1S50 la to be included in the survey for any part of the country. "In foreign nations, where architecture architec-ture Is of national Importance, historic monuments are listed and cared for by the state," said Doctor Holland. "Here, where democracy leaves cultural cul-tural affairs largely to public whim, it is proper for architects organized in a national body to assume the leadership lead-ership of popular Interest In preserving preserv-ing Important monuments of our past." |