Your Random Historical Figure of the Day: Ada Louise Huxtable

The Quick and Dirty

  1. She is a Pulitzer prize winning writer and architectural critic for the New York Times.
  2. She is most notably recognized for her sharp insights and elegant command of the English language.

On the demolition of Penn Station:
“And we will probably be judged not by the monuments we build but by those we have destroyed.”

This would possibly make a wonderful segue into Robert Moses…

Be sure to check out the Wikipedia entry: Ada Louise Huxtable

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