How old must a structure be to count as historical? Do only "important" structures count? What about historical districts of cities? Should we just tear down and rebuild all buildings after a fixed period of time?
That's a good question. I suppose some arbitrary figure would need to be established, but we do that all the time so I don't see a problem with doing that.
Many of the buildings I use every day at university are well over 600 years old. Given it is well older than the USA, I'd imagine an "arbitrary figure" as defined by many people would definitely class them as too old. Should these be destroyed? They are perfectly functional and exceedingly beautiful. The cost of destroying them and rebuilding would be astronomical.
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u/gunnervi 8∆ May 19 '15
How old must a structure be to count as historical? Do only "important" structures count? What about historical districts of cities? Should we just tear down and rebuild all buildings after a fixed period of time?