Last year, the Historic Preservation Commission had to deal with the removal of the panes of colored glass that for well more than a century had surrounded the shop windows at 508 Warren Street.
The alterations to the storefront had been made without a certificate of appropriateness from the HPC. In defending his actions, the owner of the building claimed the glass that had been removed was not stained glass but rather colored glass and some of it wasn't glass at all but rather vinyl. The storefront was to be a clothing store, Loup, and the owner argued, "It is prohibitive for us to do business with a kaleidoscope of color coming in." And thus, Warren Street lost a significant piece of its historic character.
This year, the owner of the building was once again before the HPC, once again seeking a certificate of appropriateness for work he had already done on the building. This time, it was installing awnings.
This morning, a reader alerted me that the building is now for sale, listed on Zillow for $1.875 million.
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