Preservation
The club, like all 1920s buildings, is under threat of demolition. In 2003, despite the federal protective listing, the City of Moscow placed the building on a condemned property list. As of March, 2007, preservationists succeeded to delay demolition. The building operates a night club and a restaurant, and is in adequate external condition; huge neon lettering that existed in 2003, has been removed. However, its interiors are lost to indiscriminate renovation, original windows are replaced with impoperly-sized modern frames. According to Russian press, the building is operated by "Academy of Russian Art", established by pianist Nikolai Petrov; it is not clear who actually owns the building, the Academy or the city of Moscow (the land, most likely, is a city property).
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Famous quotes containing the word preservation:
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—Hermann Hesse (1877–1962)
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