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Originally Posted by PHL10
More importantly, functionally, it's a poor building. What good is a 5-story attached building with no windows?
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Yea I feel like I'm generally one of the more preservationist minded members of this forum, but I'm definitely of the opinion that ultimate goal of historic preservation is to make the city a better place to live. Diverse and interesting architecture is valuable to those who live here, but only to a point. Urban functionality is in the end, of greater importance. Generally there is no real distinction between pushing for good urban principles and historic preservation, but every once in a while you have these outliers, buildings that are architecturally important but which are a drag on their surroundings. The Robinson building and the South Broad health clinic both come to mind. At the end of the day I want to live in a city, not a museum.
Overall though, I think buildings that warrant historic protection not receiving any protection is 100 times more of an issue than unworthy buildings receiving protection is.