Historic districts? do you like

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at some point these small towns I grew up in started to consider themselves historic. I like the layout of the towns and all and think they have a level of charm,

but to me it looks like the history from the 1800’s is basically stagnation and depreciation. most of the historic districts are just brick or even painted brick, even though Indiana quarried limestone in the past and still does to some degree. I wish all the downtown buildings were limestone, that would have made the place look like a postcard, and definetly historic.

anyways I say knock it down and rebuild. historic society is kind of funny. “its just brick”

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They dont do that unles a new housing division is coming soon or recently built?

oh sorry didnt do last part

I only like them if they are shops I would use.

The look of brick, idk, have not made up my mind. I dont think it looks good or bad, unless its painted. Then I dont like it.

Your limestone idea would be a good look.

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there have been some condos put up in one of towns. and over the last year or two there have been some buildings get knocked down. It looks like an improvement to me, but then again, I don’t own any of the buildings.

there was one old building selling for 60k? you gotta be kidding me “that aint historic” anyways it had an apartment upstairs and a storefront downstairs but must have been in bad shape for that price

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yeah I’m assuming the limestone was too expensive when they were developing the towns so they went with brick. It’s funny Indiana quarried all this limestone and basically exported it to more affluent areas. now were stuck with the brick, which is ok, but it aint limestone

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I like historic districts and the Historic Preservation Act. Without that law developers would tear every building down, and we’d lose important symbols of history.

Can you imagine Miami’s South Beach without the art deco hotels? Or Greenwich Village without the Stonewall Inn?

Developers have enough to develop without tearing down historic districts.

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Has anyone gotten a strange feeling when walking into one of those places? Like the ages and scenes that have flown by in that static building?

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Get. A similar feel from antique shops and mirrors.

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I live in a big old brick building in what is considered a historic neighborhood in the vicinity of my city’s downtown. This place sucks, total ghetto, overrun with thugs and other out-of-control people, hear gunshots and ■■■■, ridiculous. So yeah, sometimes “historic” just mean “old as ■■■■.” I guess I understand trying to preserve the nicer historic neighborhoods, just not the ghetto ones.

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