Two or three years ago it was sold. The new owners undertook extensive renovations. As the renovations were just about complete, the house suffered a fire. The fire damaged, but did not destroy the house. It stood for sale for about two years. Apparently, the new owners found value only in the land and saw no reason to preserve a repairable historic dwelling.
Today, in less than six hours, it was razed the ground. Probably, it took a year or more to construct. It took less than a single work shift to lay it ruin and rubble. Knowing the area and time in which this was built, it's a fair guess that fine handiwork of many skilled artisans went into many of the architectural details.
The only word I can come up with to describe my feelings when I drove by at noon today and saw this wanton destruction in progress is disgust.
This image shot a few minutes before noon today. Probably, the demolition workers had taken their lunch break.
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