Why Paint Your Historic Brick Building?!

This topic has been coming up a lot lately in the Landmarks office and at our monthly meetings. So much so that it deserves to be addressed on a more public level in our newsletter. Painting unpainted brick is both unnecessary and detrimental to the architectural integrity of historic buildings. (There are a few exceptions when it is justified and they are noted below.) Given this, both Landmarks Commissioners and Staff frequently find themselves asking people, "Why paint your brick?!"