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[titusnowl]

The Ward Manufacturing Building is gone. :(  Half of the facade was knocked over when I passed it a couple of minutes ago, and I expect by the time I go home from work tonight it will be nothing but a field.  :(

It makes me sad when old, nifty places like that get knocked down.  It's like killing a piece of the city's history.

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[terracinque.livejournal.com]

"Killing a piece of the city's history" is exactly what it is, and it should be illegal.

It happens all too frequently here in Atlanta.

[chikkiboo.livejournal.com]

The thing is, there is NO REASON for them to take it down. It's not hurting anybody, it's got a HISTORICAL MARKER in front of it - before it was the Ward Church Furniture company's factory, it was the main building of one of the first women's schools in Texas - I thought that knocking over places like that was illegal anyway? It's in a residential district so it's not like they can put up a business there, and the rest of the street is FULL of houses that are empty, with TO RENT and FOR SALE signs in the yards, so it's not like there's some kind of housing shortage or that street is so popular that they need to put more houses up.

[(Anonymous)]

Does it have structural problems? The building may have been a safety hazard, even if people aren't supposed go inside it.

[chikkiboo.livejournal.com]

It burned out several years ago (like, in the '90s) and had been standing in the middle of its rather large lot ever since. It was not possible to enter it, because the roof was on the floor inside the building. It would have been a safety hazard to anyone who walked inside.

I was hoping against hope, when I first saw the trucks in the yard, that they were simply removing the waste from inside the building and leaving the intact facade as it was, a sort of cenotaph.