Posted on 04/23/2024 7:01:20 AM PDT by Red Badger
Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger are under fire for reportedly demolishing a historically significant home in Los Angeles.
Critics slammed the couple for demolishing a historic Los Angeles home known as the Zimmerman house, according to an SFGate published April 19. The Los Angeles Conservancy had recognized the house as an outstanding example of Modernist architecture, according to the outlet. Although SurveyLA identified it as potentially historic, it lacked formal protections, allowing the owners to legally demolish it.
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WHAT DO THEY THINK THIS IS? A REPUBLIC OR SOMETHING?..............
Out with the old, in with the new.
Well maybe someone that wanted it preserved should have purchased it. Funny how that works.
Anyways, in SoCal, it's the land that's valuable. I see this all the time in Coronado. People pay $5 million for a hundred year old home and immediately knock it down to build something new.
only problem i see here is that Chris Pratt is with a Schwarzenegger
Want to live in an ‘old’ house?
Go to England! They have LOTS OF THEM!............... 😁
A most appropriate thing to demolish!
In Pensacola yesterday a fire destroyed a 1906 house downtown that was being renovated. Total loss. Feel sorry for the owners because the sunk every dime they had into flipping this ‘historic’ old home. But they still can sell the property that is in a prime location................
“Featured in Progressive Architecture magazine”
Well, what are they complaining about?
Progressives have no problem tearing down historical items such as statues and monuments that represent American heritage and history.
Ugly crap house.
The whole gambit of “historic preservation” has to be removed from sole control by so-called experts. Having a property designated as a “historic landmark” by any government or government agency, for whatever reason, amounts to a taking of property.
If governments want to do that they need to put the matter up to a public vote, to (a) take the property by eminent domain and (b) agree to pay the owners the market value of the property, at the taxpayers expense. Without the voters approval “the experts” lose.
They would have probably had to bring up the house to code. And it wasn’t going to cost much less than a rebuild.
L.A. is very strict on builders, unless one can “somehow” get a variance....
Plenty of houses like that in L.A anyway. Good lesson for the brokenhearted “style” worshippers....entropy awaits them too.
Meh. I don’t care for “progressive” architecture, it wasn’t listed and there were no restrictions on what the owners could do with THEIR PROPERTY. If they didn’t like it, they were perfectly free to demolish it and build the house they want on that lot.
I find “modern” homes to be unimaginative and downright ugly. They should save only 1 per city as a warning to other architects.
That reminds me of the old homestead. Sure it was drafty but it was home! I’m sorely tempted to buy it.
the REAL zimmerman house is a frank Lloyd wright house in new england that IS on the national register of historic houses ...
Personally, I love walking in old neighborhoods with mid-Century modern homes....mostly in California towns. It brings a smile to my face of when I was a youngster and kids playing in the yard and street.
However, I do not like all the sitting furniture of that era as it really is mostly uncomfortable after a half hour.
BUT, I am old so these are going by the wayside as well !!!
That is the only house I could afford since Joe Biden is running things.
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