We’ve had a message from the Charles Ives Society who, alerted by Zoe Martlew’s cri de coeur on Slipped Disc earlier this month, have formed an action committee and a Facebook campaign to save the heritage house from rampant developers. They (and we) expect to announce details shortly.
Good news: Charles Ives’s house ‘will be saved from demolition’
August 21, 2012 by
The fact they would even consider such a thing is monstrous enough.
Either fix, repair and save or bulldoze…it is currently just blight
For years, I’m talking forty plus talk and minor attempts to keep the house intact have occurred. Dis-repair and roof leaks caused a ceiling collapse and aside from some rodents nobody has been allowed inside in a number of years.
Actually, the home under discussion is not the Danbury house, but Ives’s home and property in Redding, CT. We are working to preserve the Redding property. Here is a summary of our current efforts with some wonderful photos: http://www.newstimes.com/news/article/Group-seeks-to-save-Ives-home-3808162.php