Via michiganmodern.org Paul Rudolph's Frank and Anne Parcells House (1970) in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, is for sale. Its projecting rooms resemble the architect's Orange County Government Center in Goshen, New York.

Two buildings by Paul Rudolph—houses in Michigan and Massachusetts—are on the market, and they may soon be joined by a third: the Orange County Government Center, the sprawling structure in Goshen, New York, that has been the cause of hand wringing by preservationists for over a decade, and has been empty since 2011.

In May, the Orange County legislature approved a plan that would have preserved much of the 1967 building but also altered parts of it. The renovation, by designLAB Architects, the Boston firm that performed similarly invasive surgery on Rudolph’s South Dartmouth, Massachusetts, college campus, was expected to cost $74 million. But the compromise was short-lived. Last month, the county learned that federal and state funds might not be available for the renovation, since it involved substantial changes to the building, which is eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places. In response, the county decided to solicit proposals from architects interested in designing an entirely new government center. If that plan is successful (an RFP was issued on June 30, with a deadline of August 4), the county may go ahead and offer the Rudolph building to developers....Continue Reading

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