[Durham INC] An open letter to Jeff Monsein on the shameful destruction of historic home at 910 Ninth Street

[Melissa Rooney]

I absolutely agree with Kelly here. Mr. Monsein, please rethink destroying this home. A historic home will get you more money in the long run...If you're trying to make a short-term profit, then I hope you'll think about the neighborhood and Durham at large and retain this beautiful historic home...I've no doubt you'll still make a nice profit.

Thanks for your sincere consideration,
Melissa (Rooney)




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 From: "Kelly Jarrett, Ph.D." <kjj1 at duke.edu>
To: owdNA <owdna at yahoogroups.com> 
Cc: "inc-list at durhaminc.org" <inc-list at durhaminc.org> 
Sent: Thursday, 29 March 2012 10:05 AM
Subject: [Durham INC] An open letter to Jeff Monsein on the shameful destruction of historic home at 910 Ninth Street
 

Dear Jeff Monsein, 
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I've just learned that are about to demolish the historic two-story house at 910 Ninth Street. As the Durham Architecture and Historic Inventory states, this is the only surviving house in West Durham with a two-tiered front porch. And you are about to raze it to the ground.

For what? To put up another one of those hulking multiplexes, another ugly, boxy structures that diminishes the historic nature of our neighborhood. Shame on you.


Actions like this, destroying a historic structure like this, are shameful and create resentment and resistance from those who love this neighborhood and Durham for its historic intact neighborhoods and the creative preservation of so many historic structures here (Golden Belt, Brightleaf, American Tobacco to name just a few).

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>There is a tremendous demand for properties in our neighborhood. Since word of your impending destruction of this property became public knowledge yesterday, several people have expressed interest in purchasing it. To see such a lovely historic home destroyed, a home which there are no doubt eager buyers for . . . . buyers who would preserve and restore it . . . . . to be replaced with an ugly, boxy, multiplex that diminishes the historic nature of our neighborhood. 


I hope you rethink this thoughtless decision. And I hope you consider it carefully before you raze another historic property in our neighborhood. We're watching now.

Kelly Jarrett
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>>Take a look at this lovely house. It's about to be razed by Jeff Monsein (Aluminum Company of North Carolina). I think so he can grace our neighborhood with another of those lovely, boxy, fake-sided monstrosities that are now hulking behind the fire station.
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>>Thanks for nothing, Jeff!
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>>Kelly Jarrett
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>From the Durham Architecture and Historic Inventory (1982): 
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>>"WD-28  House  910 Ninth St.:    This two-story single-pile house with rear two-story ell is the only surviving house in West Durham with a two-tiered front porch.  The house appears to be relatively unaltered on the exterior, having retained its original roof of patterned tin shingles, its original siding of molded weatherboards known as "German siding", and its original porch supports of box posts.  Two-story shed additions have been constructed on the rear of the main block and on one elevation of the rear wall."
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