This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. “here”:http://www.artofeurope.com/eliot/eli2.htm Last week when the I received the agenda for the November 17th meeting I didn’t have a lot of time to take the photos. So it […]

Because of the budget hearings the meeting location has been moved. 2:00 p.m. Safety & Permits Conference Room City Hall 1300 Perdido Street, Room 7E07 This property is on the agenda as a voluntary demolition Looking forward to the reasoning. To see the rest of the agenda…. “AGENDA”:http://www.squanderedheritage.com/ncdc-agenda-november-17-2008/

In spite of promises from the administration, including Dr. Blakley and The Director of Sanitation, Veronica White this house was demolished without review. Those promises were made in Council Chambers. When Walter Gallas from the National Trust went to the podium to offer some clarity on FEMA regulations he was chastised by Dr. Ed Blakley […]

Kate Schneiderman, a spokesman for Councilman Arnie Fielkow, said the City Council needs to approve the expenditure of the entire $79 million. The money comes from several sources in the city budget, including the mayor’s office and the Office of Recovery and Development Administration, and she said a taxpayer perusing the budget for a lump […]

*UPDATE* The City said the owner may be fined for the debris. Also the house will be on the agenda for Nov 17th NCDC”demolition” hearing. This house has seen a slow decline. The above photo was taken about a year and a half ago ago. We had heard that the house had been through the […]

The response of some to these statistics is to call for still more demolition, abandonment and neglect of older and historic neighborhoods. In the last three decades we lost from our national inventory of older and historic homes 6.3 million year-round housing units. Over 80 percent of those units were single-family residences. The vast majority […]

“why I changed my mind”:http://www.squanderedheritage.com/why-i-changed-my-mind/

One of the best live performances I ever saw back in the “dark”:http://www.answers.com/topic/richard-nixon “ages”:http://www.learningcalendar.com/this_day_in_history/days_template.cfm?history_id=60498 of the early 70’s

Even the most humble house can hold more history than it’s gutted and hollowed out walls would have you believe. The fist time I saw this house I was wondering why someone had spray painted DO NOT DEMOLISH on it. The house had floated off it’s piers and was resting against the house next door. […]

My Neighborhood Organization has been reporting this house to Code Enforcement for a long time. We reported it before it burned. But nothing happened. We reported it after it burnt, and nothing happened. The owner went before the City for an Administrative Ajudication hearing, and I guess nothing happened. Cause now he has taken a […]