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Originally Posted by Teshadoh
sportslover - Certainly a good point, but my memory is mostly of the small scale demolitions of small buildings & homes - I'm not exclusively thinking of major demolitions. Certainly the argument can be made that tearing down the Peachtree blocks between 8th & 9th and I assume currently 10th & 11th & 12th & 13th on the other side can be rightfully argued that it was done for the better good of Atlanta - but you get my point (or maybe not, oh well so is life  ).
Still - I still hate that they tore down the apartment building on Piedmont and 11th and I do miss a lot of the old homes (though abandoned) that were still around when I moved in Midtown, as well as the old hospital on Ponce near Piedmont - I would especially be saddened that even today buildings of this caliber would be considered disposable. |
Oh yeah...I remember the old Presbyterian (I think) Hospital building that was demolished. That was one that I wish had been saved...I don't know how old it was or if there was any historic significance associated with it, but it sure was a neat building. There were some apartment buildings as well in the numbered streets near Piedmont Park that were quietly torn down. I know at least a couple of them were not anything worth saving, but there was at least one that I noticed is gone that seemed worthwhile.
I guess my point is that there has been a good bit of preservation in Atlanta, much more than in some other cities. Not that I thought you were one of them, but there are people here that would have us believe there is nothing historic remaining in the entire city - when there is actually a long list of historic buildings and landmarks that have been saved, protected, restored, or reused.