How to get around the Demolition Delay Ordinance,
Part One
Mike Kirby with Lu Stone
Sometimes curiosity can get this old cat into real trouble. Lu and I walk down Union Street often on our way downtown. She has been researching the development of our Market/North Street neighborhood and compiling an inventory of its 19th-century houses. We knew that there had been a demolition at 26 Union because the frame house, dating to the 1820s, had been badly damaged by fire during the wave of arson attacks that hit the city in January, 2010.
But the massive new building going up at 38 Union next to the jail? This was a puzzlement, and Lu wondered how a house that had won a Historic Preservation award from the Northampton Historical Commission only eight years before could suddenly disappear. Read the full article here.
Mike Kirby with Lu Stone
Sometimes curiosity can get this old cat into real trouble. Lu and I walk down Union Street often on our way downtown. She has been researching the development of our Market/North Street neighborhood and compiling an inventory of its 19th-century houses. We knew that there had been a demolition at 26 Union because the frame house, dating to the 1820s, had been badly damaged by fire during the wave of arson attacks that hit the city in January, 2010.
But the massive new building going up at 38 Union next to the jail? This was a puzzlement, and Lu wondered how a house that had won a Historic Preservation award from the Northampton Historical Commission only eight years before could suddenly disappear. Read the full article here.
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