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Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Clayton Tear Down

A CraigsList ad offers for sale parts of a "large house in [C]layton to be demolished." It's a remove-yourself sale at 57 Broadview in Clayon's Clavarach Park neighborhood, recently listed in the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district. Clayton lacks a historic preservation ordinance. According to Esley Hamilton, Historian at the St. Louis County Department of Parks and Recreation, the house dtaes to 1958 and was designed by Ralph Fournier.

4 comments:

Chris said...

Not cool, that is an historic neighborhood.

Unknown said...

Yeah no kidding. How would the residents of Clavarach Park even allow this?

Anonymous said...

Claverach park trustees:
http://claverachpark.wordpress.com/cpno/cpno-officers/

samizdat said...

Called the number and the guy answering said the "first" sale was last wknd. He said that another one--presumably to parse out the windows, doors, and gutters, etc. would come later. I will eventually get around to redoing the addition on our house, so some of those windows--casing, sashes, weights, etc.--could come in handy.