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Preservation
N.J. developer that has contracted to purchase building is exploring adaptive reuse options.
THE TELEVISION SERIES Mad Men has recaptured the allure of 1960s corporate modernism. But the vanguard of midcentury business culture and design was arguably far removed from Madison Avenue. Eero Saarinen's Bell Telephone Laboratories in Holmdel, N.J., completed in 1962, exemplified a new generation of sleek office buildings constructed in pastoral, exurban locales.
Today, the glass-enclosed structure stands eerily vacant. Threatened with demolition by a prospective buyer in 2006, its odds of...