A $300M makeover for crumbling New Jersey Statehouse

[TexasTowelie]

TRENTON — An attic contains combustible materials, but the building lacks an automatic sprinkler system to protect against fire.

Water is seeping through roofs and exposed brick all over the place.

In one first-floor suite, a window is covered in plastic wrap that blows in the wind; elsewhere, duct tape keeps glass from falling out of the frames.

New Jersey, welcome to your state capitol.

Built in 1792, the Trenton landmark is the second oldest statehouse in the country that has remained in continuous use, behind Maryland’s.

Read more: http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/A-300M-makeover-for-crumbling-NJ-Statehouse.html

[DK504]

1. A grand building of 1792

wasn't maintained over the past 225 years? They couldn't set a part of the budget each year to maintain such a great building? That is on the former and present administrations ignoring our history. To think a two century old building has sat around left to rot is awful and was unnecessary. This is very sad.

The population of NJ will have to pick up the bill for what could have been done over it's journey through time. We have an obligation to keep our history in front of us and become the ruins Parthenon.