Tuesday, December 02, 2008
Effort to save historic opera building
Post Gazette: "When Jonnet Solomon-Nowlin bought Homewood's Harris House with a friend eight years ago, all she knew about the property came from an outside historical marker noting its past use as the home of the nation's first black opera company."
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This is wonderful really that people are trying to keep historical landmarks alive and well. Not so wonderful that the immature, idiotic people who feel like stealing a door knob would be beneficial to them would make it extremely difficult to keep such a land mark up. I feel that the government should do more to help preserve the house seeing how they passed the judgement that it was infact a historical landmark... should'nt they do their job to preserve it?
I agree with Paige. The local government should not leave it up to private citizens to save these historic buildings from disrepair and destruction. It's sad that this noble woman has to raise all the money herself. Why isn't the city helping her out? It should be a priority for the city to preserve its history, not just designate it as historical.
this is a great service that is going on. the history that exists in the architecture in pittsburgh and all over the east coast is a valuable asset and we should do everything to preserve it. i do however understand why the city might not be very willing to help, just because there is so much of that architectural history that is attempted to preserve. the city probably is very picky about what they choose to help preserve, since there is so much.
It is truly amazing to see how much people still care about the past and about the quest of preserving it, especially such a unique landmark as the first black opera house! This piece of history would be a loss indeed to lose...and i agree with the other commentator that i was surprised and deeply disappointed at the lack of government support.
It is admirable for someone to take on the task of restoring a house that is in such bad condition. We can only hope that others in the community see the importance of such a project and of preserving this as well as other historic buildings in the area, and try to help with the project by volunteering time or financial support.
It's astonishing to me that people can be so thoughtless and deliberately help destroy such a valuable piece of history. This woman is taking on a very admirable goal by trying to preserve it.
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