Howard House Demolition 14 Mar 08

[michelejean923]

did anyone salvage anything? If I had a little bit here and some more from there I could build my own damn house in Kalamazoo.

[loopyu2y]

iT TOOK a Million Men to build but only 1 to break!

[ahacree]

I grew up in this small town of Cochran, and I realize that some people think the town should grow. However, I think it shouldn't!! It would be great if someone who had a bunch of money would fix up old homes and old businesses like all those on the strip and make them something once again.. It really makes me mad that the locals accepted another pharmacy to come into the town.. I mean there are plenty of abandoned buildings...why destroy such a marvelous work of art..

[saglek]

Too bad, but nothing lasts in nature, so why should we expect constructions to go on forever?

It appears as a fine old building but, apparently, no one was willing to spend the money necessary to maintian or upgrade it to extend its life. There was more value in the land for other purposes. So be it.

One cannot condemn if one is not willing to offer an alternative.

Charlottetown is facing that decision regarding an older downtown commercial building, but change sometimes has to be accepted.

[Checkerholic]

This is so sad. In my area they are finding new uses for these fine old homes. A lawyers office, A social service agency. A dentist office. Once these houses are gone thats it...their gone.

[IncredableDrE]

Wallgreens is gay anyways who gives a fuck about a gay franchise. Call me old fashion but history kks ass......!

[madisonelectronic]

Fuck you Walgreens.

[zamusicza]

Walgrreens Cunts extrodinaire.

[mackhopper]

WHY WAS NOTHING OF THIS HISTORIC MANSION SALVAGED??? Hasn't anyone in Cochran, GA heard of Architectural restoration. So many items in that total and thoughtless destruction could have been reclaimed. How completely thoughtless. Congrats city elders of Cochran, GA!

[xctome]

what a very sad thing to happen! BTW whats the name of the song?

[bearcub410]

what a horrible thing to happen

[6969Wolf6969]

cool demo

[6969Wolf6969]

cool demo

[packrat79]

What a disgusting waste of history. Someone could have at least salvaged some of that stuff so it could live on in other buildings.

[gordoface607]

What a beautiful house!

[tubetoad]

@gordoface607 Yes.

[plankeye69]

Most of you people are overreacting to this, of course. As edgewatermedia said - Walgreens had NOTHING to do with this at all. The City of Cochran had plans to turn this house into the Chamber of Commerce. However, the cost necessary to make the house safe for occupancy was too much for the City to pay. They tried to sell the home to someone to restore it, but no one wanted it. So rather than letting the house fall in on itself, they demolished it. THEN Walgreens came in and bought the land.

[picklesrule69]

No piont of everyone on this video keep moaning about it. Damaged is done. Get over it and move on...

[6969Wolf6969]

the house was in bad shape and needed to come down. walgreens was willing to pay for the property and the demo, so they get to have anew store. so what. who cares?

[6969Wolf6969]

trade a cool old house for walgreen's. that makes a lot of sense now don't it?

[redprojet]

wow. this video really makes me want to kick every person that helped destroy this building in the balls as hard as chuck norris could kick.

[yurrri1978]

У нас в таких олигархи живут...

[tubetoad]

This is The Beautiful Home, on the corner, in Cochran? Great tears I shed....returning to Cochran, to inter some of my mom's ashes at Trail Branch Church, in May...: Great sadness-this House should BE, Still- (what was the price for purchase? Why wasn't this Beautiful house saved???) Love to Cochran, be there soon. Thanks for this video.

[MrDavfit]

Completely stupid......... see if I shop at a walgreens again

[55lincoln]

Why would your community leaders do such a thing? Cause they need the frickin tax revenue!  It happens all over believe me. Walgreens are a self-serving ignorant corporation. Vote the " town leaders" out of office.

[samwell224]

what are we doing...

[LittleEdie1955]

I love old houses, and wish I could afford to own one.

This is oh so sad but it happens everyday.

We did not need another Walgreens, there is one on every corner in the US.

[Pilot853]

I believe that in every city, there should be a few historical zones that are protected from demolition. They should have such zones for each major era in terms of architecture.

[12345vjd]

That is sad......

[torncorpse6]

They really couldn't have picked a different spot to put a store? Seriously?

Thats ridiculous.

[cobrachoppergirl]

You know what's such bullshit about this. There are so many homeless people in America, and unknown homeless people living under the bondage of a constantly monthly rent. And then on the other hand you have all these old homes rotting away unloved, and then demolished. They demolished this out of greed to make a sale for just the land; the person should of gave it outright to someone in need who would restore it. America is stupid as hell.

[KellyGreen5555]

This is just depressing.

Such a grand home torn down to make room for another pointless, lousy Walgreens.

[hardwares1]

recycled brick goes for what, more than a buck a brick nowadays? so they just LANDFILL them all...should've at least offered 'salvage rights' to architectural fittings ('old house parts') dealers PRIOR to all that waste...

buddy and I were GIVEN an old house like this once: 3 story, huge, same era, on main street. we stuck an ad in the paper, and sold if for $1500 to some builder, who, with his crew, dismantled it for the materials (or dismantled and moved it 'stick by stick', with his crew).

[megaswenson]

Constructing a new residence of that quality would run around 2.5 million. In places like New York, it would be more like four million (I'm assuming it was only about four thousand square feet). And that's just construction. Architect's fees would be in the neighborhood of three hundred thousand, and it would take a sizeable staff a year or so to draft something that well-detailed. Finding old-growth timber, like what was THROWN AWAY here, is another matter. What horrible waste!

[danielshouses]

This is heartbreaking. HOW could someone just ruthlessly destroy a beautiful home like that? I'm sure that the circumstances were just unfortunate and nothing could be done about it, but it's just sad.

[Pilot853]

I've been to Georgia many times before and they have plenty of space (yes, including on corners) in lucrative areas for business. That building would make a fine home or even a small museum. They should have picked a different location. Even though they did demolish it, they should have re-used things like the pillars and recycled other materials rather than smashing it all. I would have loved to see how this house appeared when it was new in 1912.

[rturnerful]

@Pilot853 ---you know what I find interesting is that about 2 years ago when in Atlanta staying with a friend for a couple of months, had picked up a picture book of Altanta... Then and Now. I was devastated in my heart to see beautiful old photographs of Atlanta with gorgeous homes, compared to the now modern Atlanta where just about every damn home and old downtown buildings destroyed in the name of progress.. There is NO true history left of Atlanta worth going there for... NOTHING.

[matts57]

how stupid all for a damned walgreens overpriced shit store

[Pilot853]

I wouldn't mind restoring it. I kinda like the look of houses from that era. I would feel pretty shameful if i was the guy in the excavator :-(

[mrvirginiabeach]

Sad...

[thpaine]

typical waste of historic resources that make an area unique. Actually, Rite-Aid drugstores are the most notorious for destroying historic sites in order to build their cookie cutter businesses.

[HRPSonline]

So sad. So very, very sad.

[6969Wolf6969]

sweet looking demo bro. you shoud be happy they getting rid of all that old crap in your neighborhood.  improves everybody's property values. tree huggers, look out, wrecking crew coming through

[lthrboy1]

Wow how sickening, this country is so quick to destroy great historic buildings and places all for a stupid chain store, Walgreens is the worst store. They could have at least dismantled various things in the building and took them to sell in a salvage yard, what a disgusting waste.

[picklesrule69]

wow that house looked well nice and big..

how much was it worth? its was well beautiful, could of been well lovly if it was done up with alot of money..

sorry i dont live in the US (I WANT TO THO), is walgrees a massive shop?

[KenGS333]

heartbreaking... and that it has to be done in such a ruthless manner, too. If they have to go, can't they be dismantled and auctioned off?

[marlycristy]

Walgrees is taking over the world and it should be stoped!!

[2621ss]

I agree, Walgreen's has WAY too many stores. Hear in Salt Lake, a small town called Riverton, used to be some historic buildings on a corner. With no one knowing, they where demolished over nigh despite votes against it being done.

My point is, a lot of these old and historic buildings that where built, no one can ever do that same kind of construction and have it last as long as they have. Most of the structures built now days fall apart within the first year or two

[breyerlover5]

Those people were stupid and wrong. That house was so amazing. I remeber meeting on that cornor alot we even went inside 1 time. It was amazing! WE DO NOT NEED WLAGREENS WE HAE A CVS RIGHT DOWN THE ROAD! I just think it was wrong! Its so sad

[CVCC1987]

Ok I am going to go against the grain here and say that Progress is exactly what Cochran needs. I am a student at the college here and we need some things to do here in town. Progress equals jobs and a better economy for Cochran. With all the student here, Cochran has tons of potential!!! Yes it is sad about the house but change is GOOD for everyone. I just wish it was a bowling alley or a batting cage.

[edgewatermedia]

I have nothing against progress, but we didnt need another drug store. Nothing against Walgreens either, it's just business. The town will grow eventually, once we stop turning away everything from Walmart years ago to KFC/Taco Bell and everything else we've lost to Eastman...

[CVCC1987]

I see where your coming from, but as a college kid from a decent sized city, as many others here are, I wish we had more to do. I do believe proper preservation of the past is needed for things like that. Just did not want ya to think that I was some heartless kid.

[edisonphonographfan]

@edgewatermedia dont let walmart in ever! greeneville tn did and the downtown is nearly abandoned i hate walmart i hope it goes bankrupt

[ray102259]

@CVCC1987 You've got to be kidding me. They destroyed this beautiful piece of history for a Walgreens. Who in this place has any sense of the long view? Your Southern culture and history is the draw for people around the nation and you exchange it for what you can get on any commercial strip in any town in America???

[CptCool2]

@CVCC1987 Cochran just got a new Middle school built, I was just there putting up a canopy for the bus loop. The new facility looks really good.

[rlabier]

horrendous. tears your heart out

[6969Wolf6969]

that's a beautiful house. this si really silly

[dawnrexgurl]

this is so bullshit this is history!!!!!!

[Paterson212]

that was evil in a sense to demolish that house cos it was just beautiful and i mean walgreens already have hundreds of stores.

[Coffeebuzzboy]

This made me sick to watch... details that cannot, no matter how talented a work crew, be created in today's standards. We really have little to no appreciation towards our historic buildings... it's a shame. It's our heritate we're ripping apart.

[gajeffo1]

Just a shame...and nothing salvaged! Walgreens just did the same thing in Gray, GA and tore down several historic homes. I'll never step foot in their stores!

[breyerlover5]

me either!

[implosions1098765432]

man that is wrong i dont like progress either that place could have been built up for someone else to live in how sad :( progress my butt

[kptsj]

This makes me so sad, Cochran is just destroying any history we have.

[DewbieHaut]

A well-built house it looks like, where was the historic society to save the place?

[southernboirj76]

that just makes me SICK! all in the name of progress. BAH! we have thousands of walgreens but how many of those old classy mansions do we have left? sad.

[nothereami]

What a shame that this beautiful old home could not have been restored and preserved.

[GavinJLang]

Can't see why nothing was at least salvaged.... what a waste..... Those columns cost a couple thousand apiece...... original woodwork... wood flooring... I know about 200 people that would have taken that apart piece by piece.. oh well, god knows walgreens was more important.