He said he had to download several different types of software, re-submit his client's application electronically, and battle to file drawings with incompatible software on agency scanners.
The purchaser of the 21-acre lot -- Mr. Serota identified him only as the owner of a leading retail company -- will build his own house and has filed preliminary drawings with the village indicating that the house will be about 25,000 square feet in size.
But somehow he managed to assemble and archive several thousand images, files, drawings, relics and objects.
In 2011, it acquired Harald Szeemann's substantial archive, consisting of more than 1,000 boxes of correspondence, research files, drawings, and ephemera, as well as some 28,000 books and 36,000 photographs.
Drawings filed at the New York City Art Commission by the architect Henry Hornbostel called for gargantuan masonry anchorages enclosing great auditoriums for public meetings.
He recalled that Mahony won most of them and that Wright filed away her drawings for future use, chastising anyone who referred to them as "Miss Mahony's designs".
Another four or five potential projects are "in the hopper," he added, singling out a couple: 16 luxury apartments over three storefronts on Main Street for which preliminary drawings have been filed, and redevelopment of a 1.5-acre lot on which a historic saloon burned down.
Technical drawings can get filed away somewhere, but the expertise that makes them real is all too often allowed to just drift apart.
Joe, an architect, lost his house, his aunt and uncle, and an overflowing file of drawings.
A man with wife and children had avoided the line at the first drawing and started about a quarter of the way along the left file of drawings.
