Westport building officials received an application for a permit to demolish the home at 104 Hillspoint Road near Greens Farms Road. Built in 1920, the 1¾-story, Cape-style house has 2,232 square feet and is located on a 1.09-acre property. It changed hands in September for $1,145,000. Because the house is more than 60 years old, its demolition status will be reviewed by the Historic District Commission at its monthly meeting tonight. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com
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I’ve seen this lovely home many times going by on Hillspoint, but when I read that it was a teardown, I figured it must be rundown inside. So I googled the address and found the following link (http://www.tinyurl.com/24hc7f) that I was given permission to put online. This house is a PEARL, a lovely home that has been totally restored. If you go to the site, you can look at each lovely room, the windows, the feeling of a warm house that is in perfect condition for a loving family to move into! Oh my, why are we losing these gems in Westport when there are many other lots on Hillspoint that could be torn down in order to improve the property? This house is such a fabulous house (it reminds me of our home), so why raze one that won’t be improved by a new house?
It should be noted there was not one word of objection from the public to the plan for 104 Hillspoint at Tues. evening’s Historical District Commission meeting (were you there, Ms. Smith?). Nor did a single commission member object or recommend a 90-day delay. In fact, the couple who live there now with their two children appear to appreciate the character of the house and the neighborhood, and presented a detailed plan for the replacement project. Their architect is known to the commission and appears well-respected.
Ms. Smith, I don’t like the teardown syndrome any more than you. But, if you stop to examine some of these projects individually, maybe the forecasts of the decline and fall of Westport are a bit premature.
Sorry that because I am treasurer of an organization I needed to be at their monthly meeting on November 13th so, no, I wasn’t at the HDC meeting. I am sure that the HDC is weary of delaying demolitons, but I can’t believe that anyone walked through this teardown. Mr. Karrel, I know that the owners are probably a lovely family, but when you call this a “replacement project”, isn’t that just a euphemism for a teardown—because this will not be a “renovation” or “restoration”? A good architect (ours from Southport has received many prizes for his ability to add onto a home so that the addition “looks as if it has always been there”) could have kept the front of the beautiful home the same and just added on much more room in the same style. No one has answered why this gem had to be totally torn down. And if you don’t like teardowns, this one had been restored and was in move-in condition for a family. There are many properties that cry out for being razed.
The commission members all visited 104 Hillspoint.