www.timesfreepress.com/news/community/story/2018/jan/17/l...
From the article:
The house was built in 1928 by Edith Soper Hardy after her husband passed and left her $25,000 to turn her home into the one she'd always dreamed of. So she tore down the 1800's cottage on the property and built a small storybook style home.
Local historian David Moon, founder of PicNooga, a historical photography preservation organization, argues the house has historical value due to Edith's humanitarian work and her husband Richard's time as mayor of Chattanooga from 1923 to 1927. Edith founded the Humane Educational Society of Chattanooga in 1910, and was named director of The American Humane Association.
While the house has historic value, it has also been vacant and neglected for two decades. The home is now owned by the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, located next door to the prominent Cravens House. The focus of the military park is the Civil War, so they don't have the resources to maintain a delapidated house built 60 years after the war.
The Park now has plans to demolish the house. The Cravens house is in desperate need of better parking, so this would likely become a parking lot. Plus the park has plans to add landscaping consistent with the time period of the Civil War. Now, people who wish to save this house have one thing in their favor: the park doesn't have the money to demolish the house.
www.facebook.com/savinglittleholme/
No comments:
Post a Comment