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Sacred Heart Convent

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04-13-2015, 01:31 PM (This post was last modified: 04-13-2015, 04:41 PM by BuildingScout.)

(04-13-2015, 12:57 PM)MidTowner Wrote: It's not clear at all to me that it's overzealous for the heritage committee to oppose razing a building which they have previously identified as having heritage value.

That is not what they are doing. I oppose taking the building down too. What they are doing is designating it last minute as of heritage value, when it is clear that it doesn't make the grade either historically or architecturally.

Quote:Can you give some examples of those times at which they have missed the mark?

About half the structures in the report that declared the Macintosh Dry Cleaning heritage were not added to the registry so that alone provides many examples. The Barra Castle was another such mistake though I don't remember how far it got within the committee.

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