Friday, January 15, 2010

Grace Hall or this???

Today I got a look at the "stunning" architectural renderings for the duplex, for which Woodstock Christian Life Services wants to demolish Grace Hall.

Stunning? Well, they stunned me!

I wasn't able to convert the file to present it here, but you can go by City Hall on Tuesday and see it for yourself.

Of course, it's about what some of us expected. Sort of a Plain Jane (no insult intended to the Janes who read this), low-cost, unremarkable duplex, rather than the fine, old, architecturally-significant, historically-important, brick lady standing now at 318 Christian Way.

I'd say, if you want to remember Grace Hall, this week will be a good time to go by, walk around, reminisce and take your final pictures.

Probably the City will approve this plan without much contest, and you can bet that a request to demolish Grace Hall will promptly hit the counter at City Hall. The wrecking ball could be in place and running, with the operator waiting for the phone call from City Hall as soon as somebody stamps APPROVED on the demolish permit.

Won't it be interesting 2-3-5 years from now to examine the financial status of WCLS and calculate whether they made the right financial decision? By that time, the bricks will be long gone and the memory of the building will have begun fading from the minds in Woodstock.

Shame on WCLS.

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