This morning about 10 AM a sweet 1,000 sq ft Victorian cottage at 2115 M 1/2 began it's journey west to a new location at 31st and Q. The Galveston Historical Foundation found a new home for it, the house having fallen during Ike. This house is being saved and given a new life- with plans to make it "Green". There's even a wind turbine planned, so it can pretty much be off the electrical grid. http://www.Galvestonhistory.org should have details on the plan for it's new life. At the same time, I drove down Broadway to my appointment and saw the lovely Broadmoor Apartments at 29th being knocked down. According to the 2007 Heritage at Risk List:
The 1920s-era Broadmoor Apartment Building on Broadway is noteworthy for its unusual architectural program and mission-style brick architecture: as an apartment building it seems more suited to the west side of Manhattan than to Galveston, but if saved it could offer re-use as retail or office space. Currently up for sale and facing an unsure future, it has been vacant for more than 30 years and is in desperate need of immediate attention.:
Well, I know the roof was all but gone and the estimated building reconstruction costs were extraordinary, but it's a shame that we've pulled down one more bit of history on a street which has lost so much already. I guess you save what you can and live with your losses. Kind of like the Ike flooded East End: we've lost the urban forest we had, and are learning to live with sun loving plants...there are worse things.
Image and quotation Courtesy of GalvestonHistory.org.
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