Dear Editor:
As I walked down First Street and Clinton on Sunday the 12th, I noticed the roof was now off the beautiful old bank building on the corner. I knew in my heart that it would be demolished sooner or later. For one thing, its corner property.
We need to have much larger landmarked area and also individual landmarked designations. We have lost so many historically and architecturally important buildings in the 26 years I’ve lived here. For example…
The Building on 4th Street off of Madison with the bat style architecture, the ‘El Presidente’ Building (one of the last Vaudeville houses) on 4th Street, the wooden ‘bridge’ over on Harrison St, the last blacksmith shop and the 1820-30’s Federal style free standing house on Second or Third off of Washington, back in the 1980’s. These are only a few!
Hopefully, with our new mayor and administration at City Hall, contractors and ‘fly-by-night’ developers won’t be ‘joined at the hip’ with our elected officials!
John Heliker