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[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Isn't it also riddled with asbestos?

One of the reasons I moved from Vancouver to Scotland was because I was sick of doing stonework on multimillion+ mansions. I work in Conservation here. It pays.....well it pays like shit. But I get to work on buildings with proper history. We, North Americans, have a tendency to just knock things down instead of maintaining them.

As an example, the oldest building in Vancouver is only 15 years older than the house I live in here....

I think it's really important that we maintain significant structures. Personally, I agree with you. 24 Sussex should be relegated to a museum. It should be restored, maintained, but it's no longer suited to task.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I think it might be asbestos-free now - they've spent the last few years gutting the place.

But yeah, I don't think I'd support tearing it down, despite the fact that the house itself supposedly isn't considered architecturally significant.

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 5 points 13 hours ago

Architecturally significant and historically significant are totally different things. It was offered as a PM residence for less than 100 years, but it's almost 160 years old, and that should count for something in and of itself.