The ornate Dushanbe Teahouse was a gift to the city of Boulder in 1990 from its sister city, Dushanbe, Tajikistan, and it houses a thriving restaurant today. George Peknik's book, The Meaning of the Boulder-Dushanbe Teahouse, describes the place and the debate about what to do with it when the structure arrived in crates.
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