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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Here, a local ‘historic’ home was to be demolished for a new hotel. The local historic society busybodies tried to get it put on some preservation list at the state and federal levels.
They failed.
Then they raised a million or so dollars to have the house moved.
It was on Santa Rosa Sound, high on a hill.
They had to put it on rails to lower it to a barge on the Sound, then floated it several miles down stream to another vacant property across a major highway and reverse the process of moving it off the barge.
The house has been sitting there ever since, and is now falling in on itself, is an eyesore and a fire hazard..................
The City could have made it a historic home, which would have reduced it value but kept it intact, and they chose not to do so.
Fountain - (Marcel Duchamp 1917) was Dada. Anti-Art.
I’m sure Duchamp would be incredibly amused that 107 years later critics still don’t get that it was poking fun.
House! You were lucky to live in a house! We used to live in one room, all twenty-six of us, no furniture, 'alf the floor was missing, and we were all 'uddled together in one corner for fear of falling.
Tear it down and build something interesting.
lots of “historic” double wide’s from the fifties to choose from but my personal fave has always been those sleek silver travel homes that are turned into diners. what’s NOT to like?
We've left the thread topic of Hollywood real estate - but "poking fun" is the the ultimate post-modern attitude. Everything, including art, is a joke. Its the apotheosis of meaninglessness
Did they OWN the home? If so, shove it.
Same thing happened in Miami Beach about 15 years ago. A husband and wife bought an old, dilapidated house that NO ONE had fixed for years and no one would buy...and they were going to either renovate or tear it down, I don’t recall...
Suddenly, the leftist looks cared about PRESERVING the property and filed all sorts of court actions to stop this couple from developing what was an ignored piece of land.
Absurd.
“Although SurveyLA identified it as potentially historic, it lacked formal protections, allowing the owners to legally demolish it.”
Pass the popcorn, please.
Theirs to do as they choose. Still, it always strikes me as weird that starting from scratch on empty land doesn’t make more sense. Then, there would be two houses at the end of the story. Demolition is underway with Rush’s house ...
https://www.newser.com/story/338133/cosmetics-heir-razes-limbaughs-former-home.html
Preserving old house is silly.
Europe has been doing it for centuries.
If it wasn’t for an occasional war, Europe would be awash in house flippers...........
Sometimes, yes; sometimes, no.
That’s a particularly obnoxious trait of Southern California, to bulldoze cool old houses to put up their modern trash. It speaks to their lack of respect for anything. It’s also a precise metaphor for what they are doing to America.
Hollywood and the “elites” hate America and are bulldozing it too rebuild on the lot.
I agree with you; some of the Mid-century modern architecture was wonderful and holds up today, but a lot of the other design was ugly, or just plain boring.
If it was so important, maybe the city of Los Angeles should have bought it.
Oh the horror!! Allowing people to do what they want with their own property!
Newer constructed homes are ugly, cheaply constructed, lack character and craftsmanship and are completely worthless.
When it comes to architecture, Americans are tasteless and inferior.Europeans have the taste to appreciate older homes.
I don’t know who this Pratt idiot is and I assume that Katherine Schwarzenegger is the daughter of Arnold and Maria. They don’t come across as very bright.
How many dozens of mid century hotels have been torn down in Las Vegas?
Where is the gnashing of teeth over this?
I can’t speak to this former home, but many mid century homes have low ceilings, tiny bathrooms and closets, inefficient kitchens and have had or will have to have major upkeep.
DOESN’T look very different from my 1953 3/2 house in San Fernando Valley.
I owned it 29 years.
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