Sunday, November 15, 2009

What Happened In October?

Nothing. Just got a little behind. Let me bring you up to date. Apparently the previous owners initiated a restoration on the house after it was damaged by a fire. Not sure what happened in the interim but the renovation stopped and the house went back to ownership of the bank.

The first step for me was to have the Safety Department inspect the property. The Safety Department determined the house to be structurally unsafe. This was not entirely bad news since my first inclination was to tear the house down from the get go. Since the home is on the National Register of Historic Places I was still willing to restore it if possible, but with the results of the inspection I decided that demolishing the house would be the prudent thing to do.

The home is being disassembled piece by piece to preserve as much of the original building materials as possible. These materials will be used in the rebuilding and artistic development of the new house.

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