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I love that they are moving and restoring this historic building, but why is INDOT paying for half of this project?
I believe the reason it needed to be moved at all was the State Road 32 work INDOT was doing. Otherwise it would have to have been demolished. Given INDOT compensates land/building owners for having to take their land/remove structures, contributing to the relocation/restoration seems reasonable.
Westfield / INDOT destroying what’s left of the actual townsite to let drivers drive a little faster, and calling it “historic preservation”? I’ll pass.
Who would be inconvenienced if we just decided to destroy it and save a couple million dollars? I honestly haven’t heard anyone in Westfield (where I live) mention they care about that building being saved. It has history, but that building has zero uniqueness in design or architecture, so really not sure why we’re paying that type of money to save/move it.
This is a Civil War era building. It has a rich history in our little city. How many of these do we have in Westfield? While it does not have any distinctive architecture it does represent the culture of that era. Plain, simple, functional. There is a message for us in this building.
Nothing like holding onto some nostalgia to remind people of the good old days that are never quite as a good or “great” as they seem to imagine them being.
So it was the Old Corner Drug Store at one point. Are people 150-200 years from how going to maintain strip malls in the name of “historic preservation”? What would that message be?