To Be Demolished or Not to Be Demolished

 

Sometimes I just don’t understand American towns and their lackluster interest in historic preservation. The house below, the I.W. Twyman House of Hodgenville, Kentucky, was allowed to be demolished in 2012 to accommodate six or seven parking spaces for the funeral home next door. The house was a beauty with ornate fireplace mantels, porch with Doric columns, stained glass and yellow popular millwork. You can read its story in the newspaper article below.

 

 

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At least the town of Hodgenville saved this home at 111 S Greensburg St., thought to be the oldest house in town. The lot was purchased in 1852 and the house built around 1874. A Utah firm wanted to demolish it to build a hotel. Long vacant, the home looked toast to me, but fortunately the home was moved to a new location in town, and hopefully will be restored.

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