Gardner Museum Razes Carriage House. Oops?

Good article by Sebastian Smee in the Globe today about the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's carriage house, which was torn down yesterday to make room for the fancy new Renzo Piano addition to the museum. It turns out that the carriage house was somewhat more than just Izzie G.'s "garage." In Smee's words, "Like the rest of her unusual 'palazzo,' it was always intended to evoke wider, symbolic meanings." And now it's a pile of rubble. [Globe]