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Originally Posted by valhalla
Settle down, everyone. This thing was built in 1960. Nostalgia alone doesn't warrant preservation status. I have nostalgia for lots of buildings that have no architectural or historical merit.
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Being 80 years old in a city that is only 182 years old is certainly worth more than nostalgia. This building, furthermore, actually
does have architectural and historical merit. See the many reasons posted about above.
Don’t swoop in, tell everyone to calm down, say this building doesn’t deserve protection, and then fail to provide any reasoning whatsoever for why it does not other than “nostalgia≠historic.”
This stuff IS local history. We need to stop thinking that the only stuff worth preserving is rich stodgy people’s homes who had a hand in the political decisions of our early days. Some of those people made horrible decisions, like my great great grandfather:
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Mayes was elected Lieutenant Governor of Texas in 1912 despite not campaigning for the position. While Lt. Governor, Mayes played a notable role in the controversy surrounding the Daughters of the Republic of Texas' custodianship of the Alamo Mission in San Antonio, siding with Clara Driscoll over Adina De Zavala to demolish most of the remaining portions of the site's long barracks. He made this decision while governor Oscar Colquitt had left the state on business. This event became known as the "Second Battle of the Alamo."
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Harding_Mayes