[CPEO-MEF] PRESERVATION: Hangar One's windows (Moffett Field, CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Race to save last historic piece of Hangar One
Unique windows at stake as Navy contractors complete interior demolition

by Daniel DeBolt
Mountain View Voice (CA)
January 21, 2011

With Hangar One's restoration funding unexpectedly lost in last year's 
political re-shuffling in Washington, D.C., preservationists are 
fighting to save one last thing before it's too late -- the hangar's 
unique corrugated windows.

In just over two months, the siding and windows will be torn off the 
landmark building, which will be left a bare steel skeleton unless 
funding for restoration can be secured.

The windows on the top half of the hangar were designed to withstand the 
explosion of a 1930s airship filled with hydrogen, said architect and 
preservationist Linda Ellis in a presentation to the Moffett Field 
Restoration Advisory Board last week.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.mv-voice.com/news/show_story.php?id=3847

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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