Posted on 04/23/2024 7:01:20 AM PDT by Red Badger
Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger are under fire for reportedly demolishing a historically significant home in Los Angeles.
Critics slammed the couple for demolishing a historic Los Angeles home known as the Zimmerman house, according to an SFGate published April 19. The Los Angeles Conservancy had recognized the house as an outstanding example of Modernist architecture, according to the outlet. Although SurveyLA identified it as potentially historic, it lacked formal protections, allowing the owners to legally demolish it.
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DOESN’T look very different from my 1953 3/2 house in San Fernando Valley.
I owned it 29 years.
Came curved driveway/front door layout-—planed area between drive & front door & front wall.
In my town older homes are 200 years plus old.
Too many small corners and I hate crown molding. Too hard to ckean.
You’re not THAT old. ;-)
I will criticize them for spending $12.5 million to buy a small piece of land in a crowded neighborhood.
The homes on 3 sides look into their property. No privacy.
I guess some sort of tax dodge. They have other homes.
Several years ago in Robbinsdale, Minnesota there was the Terrace theater which sat empty for many years. The owner of a grocery store next door bought the site and wanted to tear down the theater to expand the store and parking. They were blocked for many months by people who wanted to save the place. It all ended when a digger “accidentally” smashed in a wall....
Count me as one who likes mid-century cool. If I had the money I would buy one, but I sank it all into a 1792 New England Colonial, and a 19th century Cape in Maine.
All that's missing is the big Magnavox console with Sinatra crooning in the background. 
Eh, you were lucky to have a room! We used to have to live in t’ corridor!
And you try and tell the young people of today that ... they won’t believe you.
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