When I first saw this photo above, I though this building was being demolished. In fact, only the top two stories were taken off in the 1905-built building.
When I first saw this photo above, I though this building was being demolished. In fact, only the top two stories were taken off in the 1905-built building.
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I wonder if there were structural weaknesses on the upper floors. Or maybe they were going to spend so much on a renovation that they had to bring the building into compliance with some current height requirement.
This is more common than you would think. Many buildings were built for manufacturing or warehousing space on the upper floors, and as that design became outdated, it was often considered more efficient to remove extra floors that were no longer used.
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Houses also appear to not be immune to architectural lobotomies:
Eminent domain doesn't mean you can't use the rest of the building
This was in India in 2006. This road was widened, you can see the new curb and electric wires. The building is still occupied, the open rooms are just like patios, but the small windows have been reinstalled to close in those rooms.
well.. my favorite is this one:
http://www.construction-today.com/cm...=176&Itemid=84
Summit Kearny Mesa .. they were forced to demolish 20' feet off a tower after the developer bribed a city planner (who was later fired if not prosecuted.. I can't remember which) to look the other way despite the obvious Federal non-comformity.
This is similar to a project in the late 1990s where WisDOT built a new highway here in the Appleton area (WI 15 west of US 41) and they lopped between a third and a half off of an existing warehouse that was in the way of the new highway.Originally posted by Random Traffic Guy
Eminent domain doesn't mean you can't use the rest of the building
This was in India in 2006. This road was widened, you can see the new curb and electric wires. The building is still occupied, the open rooms are just like patios, but the small windows have been reinstalled to close in those rooms.
See:
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=4...21973&t=h&z=16
It is the building on the NE quadrant of the railroad crossing.
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And they're using that ROW for so much
There is a 2 story building in downtown St. Louis that started life as a 6 story building. Was doing some work for a potential buyer, reason for it... taxes. Owner could not pay the taxes in the 30's and had a tenant for the first and second floor. The building was about 40 years old at the time and demoing 4 unused story's made more sense than repointing them, when the tax on all the square feet was considered.
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It may simply be the photograph, but it appears to my eyes that the upper two floors are indeed bowing out from the lower floors.
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We have a lot of these in the Boston area. The reason, as I understand it, has as much to do with property taxes as anything. If space was going to be vacant, it was cheaper to chop it off than keep paying property taxes on it or fight for abatements.
A case in point- Union Square in Somerville. Look at an old postcard and it appears that all the buildings have been replaced. But look at the bottoms of the buildings and you'll realize they just chopped the mansard roofs or other top floors off.
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