Goodbye post office: once upon a time, in the late 1950s, it was so important to build this now useless post office on this very block that a whole neighborhood was demolished to make way for it. The residents on this block were "legally" forced out of their homes (paid compensation deemed fair by a judge and lawyers). Many of the old homes on this block were already nearly 80 years old when they were razed to the ground. All that demolition and family sadness to build a post office structure that would be unnecessary in barely 50 years and with little other convertible use. It was built to be one thing, and one thing only, a Post Office. Too bad none of the folks who mandated the demolition and new post office in the 1950s were able to read "How Buildings Learn" by Stewart Brand, or they might have had the foresight to build a structure that (because 80% of all buildings change functions) could be transformed afterwards into something useful. Old homes can be law offices, restaurants, stores... this structure, however, was deemed unservicable.
Posted on: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 23:43:37 +0000
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