tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post1851140485245012069..comments2024-03-28T17:55:31.180-04:00Comments on The Gossips of Rivertown: This Morning at the HPCCarole Osterinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16010623982526286408noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-43211084341507593732012-06-08T22:02:43.257-04:002012-06-08T22:02:43.257-04:00Thank-you as always for the great reporting.
Afte...Thank-you as always for the great reporting.<br />After that door disaster at City Hall,I am heartened to hear that it sounds like HPC,held its own.<br />Very relieved those atrocious 2 blds on 1st ST and Cherry Alley will NOT become realities and<br />the Tara "Sketch-up" thing was nixed over by the Armory Houses<br />Also that the Grocery store front is now more architecturally accurate and compatible. And the Taylor house will remain where it belongs.Meaning also, 21 Union can be properly restored.<br />Glad "Gossip's " status has been deservedly moved up,to "further documentation" and I sincerely hope that GalVan ,puts its money where it's mouth is and in the Tradition of their muse- Doris Dukes, and moves and saves 900 Columbia St, what ever the cost is to them.<br /> For Dukes ,it would be typical to purchase properties for 10k put in 70k worth of labor& materials ,only to end up with a property maybe worth 50k in the late 1960's & 70's.That's not moving a house.Which she also did.<br />Interiors were restored as well. She did this no less than 76 times.Her goal wasn't profit in $$.Her goal was to save the structures,historically restore and maintain them.And she did.Right before urban renewal got there first.Over 50 yrs later, all of Newport and visitors still profit, by their beauty and history.GalVan, has set it's bar high.We shall see and hope they mean what they said in their Mission Statement.Prison Alleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10059050028975347899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-48862154573497778732012-06-08T19:47:17.845-04:002012-06-08T19:47:17.845-04:00I found Barbara Dague's application and portio...I found Barbara Dague's application and portion of the hearing most interesting.Ward Hamiltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14077951464866486246noreply@blogger.com