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Today, 20 congressional hearings and $83 million later, the station is closed, too dangerous to use. Parts of the roof have caved in. Leaking water has spread sepia stains on the gilt-edged ceilings and knocked loose hefty chunks of plaster. Pipes have burst, leaving muddy lakes. Toadstools grow from urinals and floors. Beneath 36 granite Roman soldiers encircling the balcony of the musty waiting room, rats and roaches prowl...
...modeled his beaux-arts palace on Rome's Diocletian Baths and the triumphal Arch of Constantine. When it opened in 1907, luxuriously appointed with mahogany, crystal, brass and marble, its 760-ft.-long, 45-ft.-high concourse was the largest room in the world under a single roof. Niches in the façade held carved avatars of fire, electricity, agriculture and mechanics, each weighing 25 tons...
...Bicentennial tourists coming to Washington, had ordered the center to be finished for a July 4, 1976, opening. In the rush, planners neglected heating, wiring and plumbing. Work began before the cost estimates and architectural plans were finished. A construction contract was signed that invited cost overruns. The crumbling roof was ignored. "It sounds horrible in retrospect but in the rush we never addressed the problem of the roof," Hite says. "We were going to open that thing willy-nilly." Ironically, the great Bicentennial crowds never materialized...
...hearing, the Senator from New York drolly asked Hite if the number of people going down in the Pit equaled the number of people coming up. Some joked that the Pit should be turned into a swimming pool or a national aquarium to take advantage of the leaky roof. Virtually ignored by tourists, the Pit closed after two years...
...burning cinder carried on the wind came through an open window, and all the water in his basins did nothing. With no one there to extinguish the spark, his house was gutted. And his open faucets so dropped the water pressure that when Mr. Forest climbed on his roof-hose in hand to battle the flames, no water would come out. His house burned to the ground before I got home...