tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7006035116970579216.post4633713409659228854..comments2024-03-23T21:00:09.726-05:00Comments on Vanishing STL: Page Manor is Being Demolished!Vanishing STLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08798287914185180625noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7006035116970579216.post-305091067268525622013-09-22T20:21:13.820-05:002013-09-22T20:21:13.820-05:00Thank you for your updates and blog. I lived in t...Thank you for your updates and blog. I lived in the city of St Louis for three years and loved it. Would still be there but have relocated to Georgia. I loved the old buildings and had an 81 year old home that only had one structural issue....a slight crack in a beam fixed by a joist hanger! The older homes in St Louis were built to last. I only wish the preservation of these beautiful buildings would be supported by the city. It is wonderful that the City Museum is repurposing the bricks from this building! <br />Bethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06372822056223013903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7006035116970579216.post-56480120715403525632013-09-19T09:32:38.193-05:002013-09-19T09:32:38.193-05:00618I stand corrected, City Museum, and please acce...618I stand corrected, City Museum, and please accept my apology for having inferred malicious intent on your part. Mea culpa. You guys do good work, and I besmirched those efforts and your good reputation by inserting foot in mouth. <br /><br />However, the loss of this beautiful structure, which is still of a robustly sound condition, is a bloody awful travesty. <br /><br />Travesty #5,677, by my snarky count. And I must agree with Adam, as I too suspect that there is a kind of loathing inherent or present in the Old Guard residents of this podunk burg. Perhaps even embarrassment at the number of old buildings which get in the way of progress (whatever that means; I suppose one meaning is 'gets in the way of more suburban crap'). And then there's the seeming hatred of preservationists by those who feel that they should just "mind there own f***ing business". Let me be the bearer of bad news to those who hate us preservationists and our goals: This town would look like Detroit, or Camden, or Newark, NJ if it weren't for our efforts over the last forty years to preserve not only individual buildings, but entire districts. <br /><br />One need only to look at the opposite of preservation, land clearance, and its disastrous effects on the stability and cohesiveness of surrounding neighborhoods to see the truth of this. And that's just one tactic of the anti-preservation crowd.samizdatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7006035116970579216.post-66657762017614140132013-09-18T21:18:00.782-05:002013-09-18T21:18:00.782-05:00I would bet that most St. Louisans don't know ...I would bet that most St. Louisans don't know about the demolition of our historic buildings until they are already slated for destruction. I can only think of one thing that would cause our aldermen to allow this. Money. Who's getting paid off?bloggin’ in b-flathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06286698595076894442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7006035116970579216.post-51921975213610396722013-09-18T17:44:42.805-05:002013-09-18T17:44:42.805-05:00i give up. for whatever reason, too many st. louis...i give up. for whatever reason, too many st. louisans either detest or just don't care about this place.Adamnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7006035116970579216.post-80442035621897185792013-09-18T16:10:11.445-05:002013-09-18T16:10:11.445-05:00Reading Michael Allen's article recently I was...Reading Michael Allen's article recently I was envious of Cincinnati whose Mayor gets it regarding historic preservation and personally visits every historic building that is slated for demo. I wish our City Hall wasn't so passive about it. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7006035116970579216.post-49756437176355686432013-09-18T15:25:59.375-05:002013-09-18T15:25:59.375-05:00We are purchasing the stone. We're not the one...We are purchasing the stone. We're not the ones tearing it down. City Museumhttp://www.citymuseum.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7006035116970579216.post-78635105465084060702013-09-18T08:40:57.573-05:002013-09-18T08:40:57.573-05:00If you haven't heard already, you won't be...If you haven't heard already, you won't believe what entity is tearing it down, and why: City Museum! Apparently, they wanted the facing limestone for a "tower" they're building in their parking lot. I think I saw a link to their Twitter feed (?), and lo and behold, there it was. The worst part about it? They were really excited about it, as in (I'm being approximate here, not verbatim), "Currently tearing down this house; using the face stone to build a tower on our lot. So stoked", etc., or some such drivel. Of course, it could simply be that they contracted to purchase the stone from a demo co., which had already been contracted to raze the structure. But the way they worded the post about it made it seem as if the Museum itself had ownership of the house. Either way, another structurally sound jem bites the dust in "Grand Center".<br /><br />Nice, huh?samizdatnoreply@blogger.com