The yellow-stucco mansion at the corner of Valence Street and St. Charles Avenue is the subject of a demolition request by Baton Rouge-based Crescent Road LLC, scheduled to be heard at 2 p.m. Aug. 20 by the Neighborhood Conservation District Committee, according to Karen Gadbois on her “Squandered Heritage” blog at The Lens.
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I live a few blocks away, for the past 4 years, and that thing
has been vacant the entire time. It looks like it had last been divided into
apartments, and I have been dying for someone to buy it and do something with
it! The formerly run down house on the
other end of that block was redone about a year ago and it looks AMAZING. That one was a renovation back to the classic
St. Charles mansion, and was done exquisitely.
The building seeking demolition is a stucco Spanish inspired house, and
there isn’t really anything special (if you ask me and I am no expert) that I
would deem worthy of not doing a complete demo and starting from scratch. Whatever happens I am happy someone is going
to bring back that space and make that block one of the most stunning there is
on St. Chuck!
So Thanks!!!!!!!
I believe that the stucco facade is a later remodel to house built in the same (late 19th or early 20th century) style of other houses in the neighborhood. If so, and the original house could be restored, I hope that an architiectural historian will be present to explain that at the NCDC’s or any other demolition hearing.