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Powell Hall, I remember when it was the St. Louis theatre (movie palace). That is a good thing if the symphony needs the space. It has not been residential for years. Maybe The Cupples House is enough for that veracular style. Those glass block windows are a disgrace. Is the cast iron porch frame original, the place is badly butchered. There are plenty of homes of this style to be gentrified in North St. Louis, for the few and the brave who wish to dedicate their lives to the upkeep of a property that was built to have a staff. If they were able to move a masonry house without disaster, where would they move it and to what purpose, another house museum? It has some nice features intact, like the eyebrow window on the roof, turret appears to be missing a roof. Is it currently serving as offices?
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@KevinDHart Agree, between saving the old St. Louis Theatre and this house with plenty of other examples, there is no contest. Certainly don't move the symphony.
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@jamie49868 By all means if some private individual wishes to purchase, then dismantle or move this masonry building, then please do so. There is a point where too little, too late comes into play. It has no historic designation, the symphony owns the building and they have approval for expansion.
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@jamie49868 More to the point, is whether it should be done, append a Victorian red brick residence to the expansion of a buff brick art deco building, which presents legal and fit for purpose problems and incurs more costs than is reasonable to the property owner, from memory, there are plenty extant examples of this style of house existing in residential neighborhoods awaiting restoration. I suggest you turn your efforts toward those structures with a reasonable expectation of survival. I thought from the information that the only option now open to discussion was whether or not it could be relocated at private expense. I do not think moving at public expense is viable or wanted. Last time I checked, property rights continued to exist in St. Louis, until the property owner desires to have a red brick residence appended to their expansion, your point is moot.
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