PODS showed up over a week ago in front of the Monster yellow house and it seems crews have been ‘salvaging’ items (hardware, fixtures, etc.) out of the house. I got word today that the windows will also be removed and instead of moving the house, demolition will likely occur.
I guess we will have to see.
Just think, a home that was not a part of the neighborhoods history has now become a part of that neighborhood’s history, even though it will no longer be a part of that neighborhood….. So it’s an example of living history, I guess….Now, that’s a historical district, if I have ever heard of one….
I bet some neighborhood kid could make a killing selling lemonade to all of the on-lookers when that house gets torn down.
U’d think Raven could supply them richers with a balloon big enough to fly it away someplace.
Just think of how much money was wasted just because they couldn’t agree on a reasonable solution. My god. More than a million in construction and legal fees. Poof. Gone. Could have created a trust fund for education in the trades, teacher supplies or public art. Nope. Poof.
I learned I’d never want to live at/near McKennan Park. The snobs and partial judge is to much to deal with. It’s a nice house. It’s to bad it couldn’t be moved somewhere outside city limits where there’s always a welcome municipality and neighbors.
Not all those people are snobs but I do hope they have to pay for the demo.
Oh, The price of ego
What seems to keep getting lost in this conversation is this not only directly affected the McDowells, it also was about preservation of a historic neighborhood.
If this had been allowed on Second Avenue, imagine what would have been built on the empty lot at the corner of 26th Street and Fourth Avenue.
anonymous,
Exactly! I think they should build replicas of the homes that once stood at that lot and the one on 2nd Avenue.
A historic district is suppose to be a history of what was and not what some want…
Having homes of different value, but from roughly the same time frame, depict the realities of American opportunity in the early and mid century of the last century.
Although, this neighborhood is upscale, and was from day one, it proves how people of different economic levels worked and played together in almost all neighborhoods; and a type of neighborhood that is no longer made in this town or throughout most of America, I am afraid. This uniqueness alone makes its historic beyond any architectural joy that can be found on the grandeur scale.