The quotation is engraved on the northeast corner of the National Archives Building in Washington.

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You're going into your archives, into other archives and you're building up a picture, which will just grow and grow and grow.

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After pouring millions of dollars (he won't say how many) into the property, housing a construction crew on the island when bad weather made getting back impossible and making multiple trips to the National Archives to comply with historic building standards, he says he'd do it all again.

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The full, fascinating story of the building is told in a richly detailed exhibition, "Architecture at Cooper, 1859-2009, " drawn from the institution's extensive archives and on view in the Foundation Building through Dec. 11.

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Rachel and co-director Ruth Mitchell will be collecting oral accounts of peoples' experiences of the building which will be recorded in the official archives.

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In Manila, Spain is restoring the former colonial administration building, La Intendencia, to house part of the archives.

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Shortly after they overthrew Saddam, US forces found the archives of the Jewish community submerged in a flooded basement of a secret police building in Baghdad.

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