![]() But the focus of future Trump-related preservation battles is likely to be Trump Tower, arguably the most iconic, if loathed, piece of Presidential real estate since Monticello. His name is attached not to a log cabin or even a sprawling plantation but to dozens of hotels, apartment blocks, office buildings, and golf courses. Trump properties provide a lot of fodder for people who worry about saving America’s architectural heritage. Yet a moot question must be raised: Might this building have merited preservation as a site for future generations to contemplate the forces and passions that shaped the forty-fifth President? If Abraham Lincoln or Theodore Roosevelt-or even Grover Cleveland-had owned a casino, wouldn’t it be cool if it were still standing and you could play a few slots? Donald Trump hasn’t even owned it since 2009, and in 2016 his residual ties were severed in bankruptcy court. Never an architectural treasure, it now resembles the shaky remainders of a truck bombing. Shuttered since 2014, the thirty-seven-year-old building has already been stripped of most of its concrete façade, falling chunks of which began crashing onto the boardwalk last year. On February 17th, the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino, in Atlantic City, is to be demolished by implosion.
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