"Firestone Mansion Falls to Wrecking Ball" WOSU

Link: Firestone Mansion Falls to Wrecking Ball
Same Hendren
WOSU NewsRoom
May 6, 2008

Efforts to save the city's Firestone Mansion from demolition have failed. Workmen have completed salvaging pieces from the 3-story home built by Columbus carriage maker Joseph Firestone.

The Columbus Landmarks Foundation wanted to save the Firestone mansion at 1266 E. Broad St. It put together a team of preservation consultants, architects, engineers, developers, and contractors who drew up alternatives to demolition. There were negotiations with the building's owner, the Columbus Foundation. But in the end, the owners decided to tear the building down. Columbus Foundation spokeswoman Carol Harmon.

"Our governing committee has decided as it did last summer that the structure did not have viability and we've delayed its removal as long as we can," Harmon says...