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The Battle for Ellis Island
Gratz, Roberta Brandes; Fettmann, Eric | November 30, 1985 issue

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The article focuses on the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation's fund-raising appeal. Work on Liberty Island, including the statue, the pedestal and new landscaping, is currently budgeted at $62 million Restoration of Ellis's Registry Building, which includes the famed Great Hall, will cost at least $128 million. The treatment of the structures on Ellis, built over several decades and in different styles, is the litmus test. The statue's restoration had its complications, but the issue of greatest controversy was how Liberty Island should be landscaped. On Ellis Island, however, there was a clash of philosophies: a modest facelift, preserving the distinct layers of history, versus a more ambitious and expensive approach, including demolition and new construction.

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FUND raising; STATUE of Liberty (New York, N.Y.); ARCHITECTURE -- Conservation & restoration; ELLIS Island (N.J. & N.Y.); NEW Jersey; NEW York (N.Y.); NEW York (State); UNITED States
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