Comment 85355

By gary buttrum (anonymous) | Posted January 21, 2013 at 10:54:22

as someone who has spent the better part of the last decade rebuilding historic buildings very similar to these i can with an informed opinion say that they can in fact be restored in a profitable way. and they can be rebuilt with all the modern conveniences plus the characteristics that make preserving historic buildings so rewarding. it is these qualities, high ceilings, large well thought out windows, facade materials and design of superb quality, human scale design, and quite simply inertia and embedded energy that are very difficult, and in some cases impossible to recreate.
it is ignorance of building construction that allows us to look at the shabby window dressings and the thin veneer of easily removed poor quality work inflicted upon these buildings and come to the conclusion that they are unsalvageable while the recent example of the Lister Block should remind us that the years of decay and willful and negligent neglect can be scraped away and these jewels of buildings, with a careful hand, can be polished to shine in the gore as they once did.
these buildings should be protected and repaired, not as an empty tribute to the past, but because of the richness that these buildings restored can bring to the community as a continuing commitment to the future.

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