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As one Philip Johnson house opens to the world, another may be headed for the trash heap.
The Historical Review Committee imposed a 90-day demolition delay on the Alice Ball house last Thursday, after dozens of letters in objection to the planned razing were submitted. The owner, architect Christina Ross, had filed for a demolition permit, following the Environmental Commission’s rejection of a proposed second house on the property. The earliest Ms. Ross may demolish the house is 90 days from the date of her application, November 1.
Under New Canaan’s demolition delay ordinance, a single objection to the razing of certain historical structures can halt demolition for 90 days. The ordinance’s intent is to allow more time to find a buyer willing to preserve an older structure, or at least salvage or document historical artifacts.
The Alice Ball House, designed by Mr. Johnson for a woman and built in 1953, was purchased by Ms. Ross for $1.5 million in 2005.
Ms. Ross had planned to convert the existing three-bedroom, three-bath home into a pool house with changing rooms and a play room; install a pool and build a six-bedroom house with a four-car garage at the rear of the property. Additions built on to the original 1,300 square-foot design would be removed, and plans call to extend the existing driveway to a proposed 7,200 square-foot home, following what was an old carriage road.
But due to wetlands on the property — the modern having been built on a filled wetland — the proposal required approval from the Environmental Commission. After five months of public hearings and deliberation, the commission unanimously denied the application in April, 2006.
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This is the long awaited Funky16Corners Radio Podcast Archive.
Here you will find titles, tracklists and download links for all the editions of the Funky16Corners Radio podcasts.
You will also find, with each podcast a link to the original post.
This page will be updated as each new podcast is added. I hope you dig it.
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From Andy Warhol to Lonelygirl15, modern media culture thrives on the traffic in counterfeit selves. In this world the greatest artist will also be, almost axiomatically, the biggest fraud. And looking back over the past 50 years or so, it is hard to find anyone with a greater ability to synthesize authenticity — to give his serial hoaxes and impersonations the ring of revealed and esoteric truth — than Bob Dylan.
It’s not just that Robert Zimmerman, a Jewish teenager growing up in Eisenhower-era Minnesota, borrowed a name from a Welsh poet and the singing style of an Oklahoma Dust Bowl troubadour and bluffed his way into the New York folk scene. That was chutzpah. What followed was genius — the elaboration of an enigmatic, mercurial personality that seemed entirely of its moment and at the same time connected to a lost agrarian past. From the start, Mr. Dylan has been singularly adept at channeling and recombining various strands of the American musical and literary vernacular, but he has often seemed less like an interpreter of those traditions than like their incarnation.
Neil Diamond held onto the secret for decades, but he has finally revealed that President Kennedy's daughter was the inspiration for his smash hit "Sweet Caroline."
"I've never discussed it with anybody before _ intentionally," the 66-year-old singer-songwriter told The Associated Press on Monday during a break from recording. "I thought maybe I would tell it to Caroline when I met her someday."
He got his chance last week when he performed the song via satellite at Caroline Kennedy's 50th birthday party.
master plan working and on schedule:
In one of the clearest signs yet of Hurricane Katrina’s lasting demographic impact, the City Council is about to have a white majority for the first time in over two decades, pointing up again the storm’s displacement of thousands of residents, mostly black.