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Old 06-25-2013, 01:24 PM
 
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Old 06-25-2013, 01:31 PM
 
Location: North Texas
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Hardly anyone is interested in preservation in DFW...not when there's $$ to be made, anyway.
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Old 06-25-2013, 02:34 PM
 
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I'm sure it was a great house. But are we now at the point of crying over 60 year old buildings?

If we start to landmark these post-war neighborhoods we'll never be able to retrofit suburbia.
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Old 06-25-2013, 02:34 PM
 
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Differing opinions on what's worth preserving but yeah Dallas is not too big on preservation and more about letting people do what they want with their property, I guess.
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Old 06-25-2013, 02:56 PM
 
Location: WESTIEST Plano, East Texas, Upstate NY
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I'm sure it was a great house. But are we now at the point of crying over 60 year old buildings?

If we start to landmark these post-war neighborhoods we'll never be able to retrofit suburbia.
It is getting to be more and more common to see efforts to preserve post-war/mid century/modernist/ranch structures and entire neighborhoods. I'm not necessarily advocating it on a wholesale level, but you don't get a hundred year old structure without it being 60 first. You're going to see more of it.
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Old 06-25-2013, 03:28 PM
 
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I am not sure I see the issue. The common thought in FW is that the issue had significant problems and someone was going to spend 7 figures to restore the house. The house was great in its prime, but the real value is the land. I am hard pressed to give a hard time to the new owners, when the previous owners did not feel strongly enough to maintain nor preserve the property. Further, as a guy who pays a fair amount of taxes in the town of the cow, I would have been pissed if the city would have purchased the property instead of using the money for roads, police, etc.
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Old 06-25-2013, 03:59 PM
 
Location: garland
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but the real value is the land. I am hard pressed to give a hard time to the new owners, when the previous owners did not feel strongly enough to maintain nor preserve the property.
As an architectural designer, I couldn't disagree more. It's akin to destroying a painting claiming the value is in the canvas. It all depends on what they do with the property but I'm willing to bet it will be rather unremarkable in comparison.
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Old 06-25-2013, 04:56 PM
 
Location: Dallas, TX
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NOT COOL

Too bad some architecturally-inclined person or group didn't come forward and offer the Moores more than they paid for the property to preserve, and possibly restore it!
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Old 06-25-2013, 07:43 PM
 
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It's akin to destroying a painting claiming the value is in the canvas.
More like if the value was in the frame. Which has been done...
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Old 06-25-2013, 09:37 PM
 
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As an architectural designer, I couldn't disagree more. It's akin to destroying a painting claiming the value is in the canvas. It all depends on what they do with the property but I'm willing to bet it will be rather unremarkable in comparison.
If the public thinks it should be preserved, then give the new owners a tax break so they have an incentive to maintain it.

Why should someone be forced to live in a house that is falling down and which may be unsafe due to deteriorating electrical and dampness issues?

I own a well designed ranch house that is nearly 80 years old. Getting it back into shape will cost me 40K plus. Its a cool design but no way will I spend that money. I'll continue to lease it out but at some point I will sell it and the land to a new buyer who can either renovate OR do a tear down.

I'll cry when the ranch house goes down, but the pain of the alternative is much worse to bear.
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