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What a gorgeous mansion. It would be a stupid move to demolish something so important to the history of Columbus.

The facade is only skin deep. Though its better then it being totally demolished it still doesn't show off the greek revival and federal influences on the roof.

Hm thats interesting. Was this due to avaliable land? Thats kind of how Indy developed.

What a shame. A historical society should not suffer budget cuts. Its a key peice in perserving culture and history. The historical society shouldn't have to pay or take care of ever historic property in the state. Why don't locals try and preserve their history? Why don't people take care of historic properties? Peoples lack of care for the culture and history of their community will be the death of us.

Ah! :0

I wish Indy had programs like that. Most green roof programs are for mason commercial buildings, as the historical housing stock is dominatly woodframe.

My house was built in the mid-19th century. It has pretty high ceilings and windows. The windows are original, and the house is made from brick. I don't pay alot for heating and cooling. Its just an odd thing about my house, in hot summer I just have to turn one AC on for a few minutes and the whole house is cooled, same with heating.

Its not a haven of preservation. But where I live is Indianapolis where we have extremely tight historic preservation laws. NYC lacks it greatly. Due to demand for highrises, people rarely try to find ways to incorporate historic lowrises instead of just knocking them down. Historic preservation isn't only for people to keep certian styles intact, its also so people can look back and see what they are. This kind of development is absuloutly sick.

What a loss! This building could be a national landmark and these f$&king morons knock it down for probably an ugly hotel! This is one of the things that bugs me about NYC, its lack of historic preservation. Where I live isn't nearly as old as NYC and we give 10 x more consideration for historic architecture! IDIOTS! :mad:

^^ that house is far from hidiouse(though it would look much nicer if the turret was restored). How do they pick these houses?

I don't think its that hidiouse, it sure as hell prettier than most things being built today. It would probably make a nice restoration.

Gorgeous! The statehouse is just amazing. :)

Lovely houses. :)

Indy moved several civil war homes in the 1980s to the eastern section of downtown. Though I think restoring them in their original location would have been better, had they not, these homes would have been razed, though the historic stone and brick basements were lost. I say, if its the only way to preserve them, do it, BUT, if you can restore the houses without moving them, do that instead.

Seems like the courthouse has a chance. Yeah, those two courthouses look identacle, loss of clocktowers seem like a major issues with historic courthouses. Many are trying to reconstruct their old clocktowers.