On The Fast Track To Destruction In Amsterdam.
This house is one of three beautiful Victorian houses slated for demolition by Fastrac Corporation so it can expand its convenience store on Market Hill in Amsterdam. The owners of this house spent years restoring it. When Fastrac announced it was planning to expand, the owners fought the expansion. Finally, Fastrac offered them more money for their house than it was worth and allowed them to remove the pillars, stained glass windows, and other architectural delights.
While I was never in this house, I was in one of the other two which is actually nicer than this one and cannot describe the beauty of the fireplaces, balustrades, woodwork, etc. It’s hard to imagine building a house like this today, using the same materials, for under $500,000.
Fastrac still hasn’t received a zoning variance in order to expand. Many neighbors still oppose the expansion so the destruction of these houses may be for nothing.
posted by Anonymous at
6:40 AM
1 Comments:
very sad, I always have mixed feelings when I hear of houses like this coming down in A'dam- they are beautiful pieces of architecture, but many of them are often neglected, crap piles up on their porches, they plastic up the windows, and often they're better off just coming down. This one doesn't fall into that category, but many of the houses in this same vicinity do- man if people would just take of their properties and have a little pride, we'd have a showcase community.
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