Three houses are the focus of the petition. Photos from petition website.
“Classic style defines what exists in the neighborhood today, and your plans will amount to an architectural bomb disrupting a consistently historic street,” the petition says.
Source: Petition Aims to Stop Guy Bryant Demolitions | The Portland Chronicle
NORTHAMPTON – The Historical Commission imposed the demolition delay ordinance on two Paradise Road buildings that Smith College wants to tear down, but said it will lift it as soon as Smith submits a commitment letter saying it intends to salvage certain architectural features of the buildings.
“I can’t confirm that it was the Malice Green building, but everything points to that,” Neely said Wednesday. City officials were unaware when they scheduled the demolition that the building had any significance, he said.
“It is part of Detroit’s history, and I regret that there was no advance notice of this,” he said.
Larry Nevers, one of the two officers convicted of involuntary manslaughter in Green’s death, died in February at 72. The other officer, Walter Budzyn, served nearly four years in prison when he was released in 1998.
Artist Bennie White Jr. Ethiopia Israel, 75, of Detroit says he painted the picture in 1992. / Regina H. Boone/Detroit Free Press
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COLUMBIA, SC — A project by an Ohio company to build an 800-student housing complex in The Vista is going forward despite blistering opposition to the demolition of a cotton warehouse on site that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Preservationists say that allowing the building to be razed sets a bad precedent for future negotiations with developers, particularly upcoming decisions about historic buildings on the old State Hospital campus on Bull Street.
“I think it tells developers all you have to do is say preservation is not financially viable and you can get through council,” said developer Richard Burts, who converted the crumbling Gallery 701 — the Olympia mill village’s former community center — into the thriving 701 Whaley arts and event complex. “You don’t have to show it. You don’t have to thoughtfully work through it.”
The Bowling Green Masonic Lodge building will be demolished beginning Monday. The building was built in 1883
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The Sherman Hoyt House on Park Avenue and 79th Street, was built in the Tudor style and had walls of fieldstone. The author recalls being aghast, as a teenager, when the demolition scaffolding went up.
I wish I could say I remember Penn Station, but all I can recollect is walking down some broad stairs to a train to a summer camp where I was being sent against my will. I do, however, have inchoate memories of my mother denouncing its demolition, one of the few opinions about public policy she ever expressed.
But I know that from my midteens I liked old things, the heft of them, the burnished quality, the evident history of an artifact — perhaps I should have grown up to be Ralph Lauren’s window dresser. I am not sure what really tipped me toward architecture instead of vintage polo mallets, but I do remember a sense of indignation maturing during the demolition of four buildings around 1970.
In 1969, the developer Burton Resnick began work on what became the 28-story 900 Park Avenue, at 79th Street, which is easily the sorest thumb on the avenue, with its dead-modern facade, double the height of the surrounding buildings. It replaced the handsome 1917 mansion by Howells & Stokes for the philanthropist John Sherman Hoyt. The walls were fieldstone, the style Tudor, and enlarged 40 times it would be worthy of Downton Abbey. I. N. Phelps Stokes wrote the massive six-volume “Iconography of Manhattan Island.” Ultra-refined, he would have winced at this replacement.
Before the Presbyterian Home for Aged Women on 73rd Street between Madison and Park Avenues, was demolished in the early ’70s, it was a trove of medical oddities for the architectural scavenger.
When I encountered scaffolding and guys with crowbars around the house, I was aghast. Here was a certifiable Neat Old Thing — how could someone tear it down? A mansion, on Park Avenue — what millionaire wouldn’t want to live there? It had seemed so permanent. I was shaken. That the co-op had received a decadelong tax exemption only rubbed salt in the wound.
In the summer of 1970 or 1971 I had an experience that did not involve a landmark-type building, but was formative nonetheless. I lived in a railroad tenement at 81st and Third, and the Kalikow family firm was about to demolish a tenement at 80th and Third. One weekend I got through the demolition fence and went through it, top to bottom, looking for … things. Stuff. Old wall-mounted can openers. Green glass juicers. It was harmless enough — entering, if not breaking — until one leg went full through a rotten section of flooring, and no one was within calling distance. If there had been nails sticking through the joists …
After demolition the developer placed a billboard on the vacant lot, prominently visible to uptown traffic, promising the usual “luxury building.” Over the Fourth of July weekend, I painted my own big sign, “Another Ugly Monster Coming Soon” and hung it in front of the billboard.
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