Important! Please read blog entry and sign petition!

[lslapiko.livejournal.com]

Help stop over-development of the lot at One Benton Road (formerly the Giobbe House).

http://lslapiko.blogspot.com/2010/04/more-tales-of-giobbe-house.html

Thanks in advance, and please pass on to friends.

To go directly to petition:

http://www.petitiononline.com/giobbe/petition.html

Comments

[ron_newman]

I don't understand why anyone would remove stained glass. Doesn't it make the property more valuable?

[lslapiko.livejournal.com]

They sold all the stained glass.

[fefie.livejournal.com]

There were lots of stained glass windows and other architectural gems (antique doorknobs etc) in my 115-yr old home before it got renovated to become 2 condos. It's common practice to remove this stuff from old buildings during renovation and sell it off ...

[i-leonardo.livejournal.com]

old stained glass, especially if it hasn't been well maintained, is a serious hassle. and it's really cold in the winter.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_meej_/]

The actual reason, from what I can tell, is that they couldn't be bothered to think about where else, other than covering half of the stained-glass window, the second-egress stair they needed to install should go. That, and their plans called for dividing up the space that the grand stairwell occupied inside. So with the stairway that broken up and covered, why keep the stained glass?

The building was on the National Register of Historic Places. Unfortunately, the local legislation doesn't give that any weight to put it under the purview of the Historic Commission, and the prior owners resisted being recognized as a Local Historic District, so it didn't happen.