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rally for the Murphy Hotel tomorrow
It is a natural that folks that appreciate historic houses would have an interest in our city’s other notable building. Unfortunately, the 1911 Murphy Hotel faces demolition by the state even though the city has plans for the building. ACORN will be holding a rally tomorrow, Wednesday, March 1, from noon to 1 pm at the corner of 9th and Broad streets to show support for saving the Murphy Hotel.
Mayor Wilder will be present at the ralley and plans to show support for preserving and adaptively reusing a Richmond landmark which the General Assembly is considering demolishing for a parking facility. The Senate Budget bill authorizes $16.8 million to demolish the Murphy this summer. For detailed information on this issue, visit at the ACORN site.
TAGGED: architecture
Do we as residents realize what a landmark we in serious potenial of losing? I realize it is not a place of some “sword exchange”, but certainly that is not necesarily what makes a building great anyhow.
Let’s allow the Murphy a pass for a next gen existence. Support our Mayor and his vision, not some archaic bassackard parking garage vision…
Style has the story.
richmond.com has the story.
Marty, you’re not thinking four dimensionally!
Tearing down this building is like letting Biff turn Richmond into some Hill Valley Las Vegas Lite!
Think like Wilder – there are plenty of other places to park the DeLorean.
The RTD weighs in with Preservationists rally around building.
Looks like the Murphy is history. What a shame.
Bringing this one up – an oldie but goodie because it is a representation of how the city has zero interest concerning historical properties. True, the building was in poor shape but due to neglect. It was torn down during the phase when blocks were being cleared for the proposed Arts Center which never materialized. So when this came up the city “promised” not to tear it down without immediately constructing another building in its place. Liar-Liar-Pants On Fire!
Link to what the Hotel use to look like:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/11/MURPHYS.jpg
And what they proposed to replace it with:
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d103/richmondpics/Random/newstaterend1.jpg