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3 unusual facts about William LeMessurier


William LeMessurier

While responsible for the structural engineering on a large number of prominent buildings, including Boston City Hall, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, the Singapore Treasury Building and Dallas Main Center, LeMessurier is perhaps best known for a structural controversy.

This triggered a hurried, clandestine retrofit which was described in a celebrated article in The New Yorker.

LeMessurier died in Casco, Maine on June 14, 2007 as a result of complications after surgery he underwent on June 1 after a fall the day before.



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