i heard back from preservation 911 on line and they thanked me and promised to investigate.
there is enough of the libertarian in me not to want the government telling you what you can or cant do to or with your house. but this just doesnt sound right. jake gorst the documentary filmmaker and grandson of andrew geller sounds near saintly with his patients in the following quote :
Mr. Gorst, a filmmaker who was working on a documentary about his grandfather, interviewed Mr. Pearlroth in February. It was then that the owner sadly explained his demolition plans.
"We have such sentimental ties to the house - I loved it - it was painful for us to think we would knock it down," Mr. Pearlroth said this week.
pearlroth sprang his intentions on gorst in a february 2005 interview that he planned to knock down the house in may 2005. he had already hired an architect who had designed a new larger house for the location and wanted to start the demolition process within three months. then suddenly offered it to gorst for free if he could find some way to move it by then. gorst is quoted as follows:
While the end-of-the month deadline may be extended, Gorst knows it can't go on indefinitely. "Jonathan wants to see the house saved as much as anybody else ... but we don't want to cause any problems for him. We don't have a lot of time."
this 600 square foot house was described as one of the top ten best houses in the hamptons by the ny observer in 2001. thats "david" kicking some mighty powerfull "goliath" but considering the hamptons real estate scene. the house was celebrated in the "weekend utopia" book which i believe accompanied a museum show of the same name as well as a film (viewable on quicktime). gorst sounds like hes walking on eggshells discussing the surprise revelation from pearlroth based the above quote. but again in a libertarian world where the government plays hands off on bossing around citizens, there is a social trust that the citizen would be sensitive to the world around them. that doesnt appear to have taken place judging from what i read. lets just say that an honorable position might be for a responsible owner to move the house them self, to act with transparency regarding their intent and to allow a comfortable time frame for the process to transpire. and only then build their big-ass house in the sand.
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there is enough of the libertarian in me not to want the government telling you what you can or cant do to or with your house. but this just doesnt sound right. jake gorst the documentary filmmaker and grandson of andrew geller sounds near saintly with his patients in the following quote :
pearlroth sprang his intentions on gorst in a february 2005 interview that he planned to knock down the house in may 2005. he had already hired an architect who had designed a new larger house for the location and wanted to start the demolition process within three months. then suddenly offered it to gorst for free if he could find some way to move it by then. gorst is quoted as follows:
this 600 square foot house was described as one of the top ten best houses in the hamptons by the ny observer in 2001. thats "david" kicking some mighty powerfull "goliath" but considering the hamptons real estate scene. the house was celebrated in the "weekend utopia" book which i believe accompanied a museum show of the same name as well as a film (viewable on quicktime). gorst sounds like hes walking on eggshells discussing the surprise revelation from pearlroth based the above quote. but again in a libertarian world where the government plays hands off on bossing around citizens, there is a social trust that the citizen would be sensitive to the world around them. that doesnt appear to have taken place judging from what i read. lets just say that an honorable position might be for a responsible owner to move the house them self, to act with transparency regarding their intent and to allow a comfortable time frame for the process to transpire. and only then build their big-ass house in the sand.
- bill 5-11-2005 8:18 pm