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Chicago Heights Historic Preservation Advisory Committee
Southtown January 23, 2009
Requiem for Flat Iron Building
write this "requiem" for our
beloved Chicago Heights. To
witness the destruction of the
Flat Iron Building is like
removing a life-sustaining
instrument. In a city, town or
village, its citizens move, die or
disappear, but its buildings
remain as a beacon shedding It is
with a saddened heart that I
bright light to its past. Poor
Chicago Heights --- is this the
beginning of the end? We have
done a marvelous job destroying
many historic buildings for
different reasons.
write this "requiem" for our
beloved Chicago Heights. To
witness the destruction of the
Flat Iron Building is like
removing a life-sustaining
instrument. In a city, town or
village, its citizens move, die or
disappear, but its buildings
remain as a beacon shedding It is
with a saddened heart that I
bright light to its past. Poor
Chicago Heights --- is this the
beginning of the end? We have
done a marvelous job destroying
many historic buildings for
different reasons.
Among those are projects that
never materialized because of
Money spent to keep historic
buildings is an insurance policy for
the future generations.
My personal thanks to the Historic
Preservation Committee, city
employees and volunteers for their
efforts in preserving and cleaning
the Flat Iron Building when its
exterior was restored to its former
regal self. Some will say it was
the vagabond, "nothing lost," but at
least the building was kept "alive."
Requiem in Pacem.
Angelo A. Ciambrone
Chicago Heights
never materialized because of
Money spent to keep historic
buildings is an insurance policy for
the future generations.
My personal thanks to the Historic
Preservation Committee, city
employees and volunteers for their
efforts in preserving and cleaning
the Flat Iron Building when its
exterior was restored to its former
regal self. Some will say it was
the vagabond, "nothing lost," but at
least the building was kept "alive."
Requiem in Pacem.
Angelo A. Ciambrone
Chicago Heights
Click picture to see demolition photos.
| In Memory |
On August 23, 2009, the Chicago Heights Historic
instrumental member of our Committee, our Chair
On August 23, 2009, the Chicago Heights Historic
and historian, Barbara Paul. She was a complete
Preservation Advisory Committee lost a friend and
preservationist, not only restoring her own home
and others beautifully with her husband, John, but
an advocate, educator and mentor. She was also a
great friend to us all and her absence will leave a
hole as no other.
instrumental member of our Committee, our Chair
On August 23, 2009, the Chicago Heights Historic
and historian, Barbara Paul. She was a complete
Preservation Advisory Committee lost a friend and
preservationist, not only restoring her own home
and others beautifully with her husband, John, but
an advocate, educator and mentor. She was also a
great friend to us all and her absence will leave a
hole as no other.
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This past December, the Preservation Advisory
Committee lost another friend and member, Kelley
Papiez. Kelley was an active and important member
of our committee who was friendly, thoughtful, full
of insight, and very funny. She will be very much
missed by us all.
Committee lost another friend and member, Kelley
Papiez. Kelley was an active and important member
of our committee who was friendly, thoughtful, full
of insight, and very funny. She will be very much
missed by us all.
Therefore, when we build, let us think that we build for ever. Let it not be for present
delight, nor for present use alone; let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for,
and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when those stones will be
held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon
the labor and wrought substance of them, "See! this our fathers did for us." For, indeed,
the greatest glory of a building is not in its stones, or in its gold. Its glory is in its Age. "
John Ruskin
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