a big beautiful addition

 

It's not like you put on an attached garage at your house in Warren MI or other city in America. And there is an awning or breezeway connecting the new structure.  Be is known that The Peoples House operates under the auspices of the National Parks Service.  Changing the shape of the structure and more than doubling the size of the edifice of one of the most recognizable buildings in our country without permission of the Parks Service is wrong in my opinion,  I don't care if you want to put a bowling alley in the basement or tennis courts in the yard or a putting green in.  These don't bother me.  But when the East wing is demolished and there are holes in the structure, I am unhappy.  

Also we used to have a Rose Garden.  Countless ceremonies took place there.  There were lots of roses.  Some were probably decades old.  Roses restart every spring.  All gone, all ripped out replaced by a concrete slab with garden tables set up.  I think of all those gardeners that tended the roses.  Tending is the key word.  Gardens need to be tended, snipping off the dead stuff, feeding, watering allowing for more propagation and growth.  Not so much with a concrete slab, a quick spray down with a hose and you're done as there is nothing growing there.  I know that ladies in heels are better off on the concrete.  They could wear sneakers and no one would mind..

I have spoke my piece admittedly a bit rambling. Yes I know that FDR operated on the building in the thirties. It was wrong then as it is now.  

Locally, Ford could have ripped down Michigan Central Station, but they didn't. They cleaned it up, preserved the building and have repurposed it.  It is the neighborhood jewel again.

thats it