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By naming the Orange County Government Center in Goshen to its list of endangered sites, the nonprofit World Monument Fund has expanded the audience for what normally would be at best a local concern.
New York State has its share of buildings in need of attention, and a quartet of them made the 2012 Watch List announced on Tuesday by the World Monuments Fund.
A nonprofit group dedicated to preserving endangered sites around the world has chosen the Orange County Government Center as one of 67 of its latest causes, along with such diverse landmarks as a bombed-out English cathedral and the Manufacturers Trust Co. building in Manhattan.
Brutalist architecture of the 1960s may not be to everyone's taste now, but that is no reason to tear it down.