Following Firm's Closure, State of Michigan Saves Minoru Yamasaki's Notes Just in Time

We told you back in January that the firm founded by World Trade Center designer Minoru Yamasaki had succumb to the pressures put upon it by the global financial collapse and would be closing their doors immediately. What we didn’t know was that the state of Michigan, and more specifically, its Historic Preservation Office, was acting fast to save all of Yamasaki’s records before everything in the now-shuttered office was set to be thrown out.