What to do when the new becomes old

Egan House in Seattle. (Joe Mabel / Wikimedia Commons)

When is a modernist structure a candidate for historic preservation? It's a big debate in Seattle, where everything was built yesterday. The 1958 Egan House, a couple of blocks from where we lived when we first moved to Seattle, is part of that debate, as is the 1961Nuclear Reactor Building at the University of Washington:

Grant Haller/Seattle P-I

Knute Berger considers preservation's bias
toward the old at Crosscut.