University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, November 7, 1989
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Groups try to curb building demolition
Preservers stress restoration value
This duplex, 1314 Tennessee St., is one of the buildings constructed by developer Douglas Compton.
By Lisa Moss Kansan staff writer
Tomas Stargardter/KANSAN
Members of state and local preservation groups said they would like to see alternative actions taken before developer tear down old buildings.
When a house at 925 Indiana St. was torn down last month, Nancy Shontz, president of the Lawrence Preservation Alliance, was not happy.
"Another one goes down," she said
"Almost all these houses can be improved. They don't have to be knocked down."
She said the alliance wanted people to see the value of restoring old houses.
Douglas Compton, a Lawrence developer, said he told down the house because it was in bad shape. He would to build a triplex on the property.
He said that before the house was torn down the ground floor had fallen into the basement, there was graffiti on the walls and the windows were broken.
"The house was basically condemned," Compton said. "The tenants trashed it."
Compton said that he did not communicate with the alliance but that he worked with the Kansas Historical Society to get permission to tear down houses.
"I know a lot of builders and developers will buy a house and tear it down no matter what. I am not like that." Compton said.
He said he tried to find condemned
houses and remove them.
"I feel like I am doing the neighbors and the city a favor," he said. "If there is a house that can be fixed up and saved, I will do it."
Martha H. Krass, architectural historian for the State Historic Society, said that all permit-requiring projects located within 500 feet of a national or state register project need to be reviewed by the historic society. A register is a listing of historical buildings.
Krass said that the historic society advised whether or not some buildings should or should not be torn down.
She said that the historic society worked with the alliance and that they had helped preserve buildings and register listings and other programs.
The Oread Neighborhood Association supports the alliance's efforts to save houses, said Jennifer Kimball Brown, coordinator of the neighborhood association.
Kimball Brown said that as older houses were replaced by multi-family dwelling, it became more difficult to keep families in the neighborhood.
The neighborhood has always been a mix of students and single-family residences, and it is important to it that way. Kimbail Brown said.
"I think there should be stronger controls on what is built in the neighborhood." Kimball Brown said.
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