Best to your efforts! I am an antique dealer and appreciate preservation of the historical past.
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Jeanne Hamer
5 years ago
Keep the integrity of the neighborhood!
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Sara Adams
5 years ago
I live across the street, and I am ripped that the town is entertaining a zone change. This is a residential neighborhood, and we purchased our house two years ago for that reason. Houses across the street and next to this property have had new families move in during the last 12 months, and it would be terrible to make this change that would immediately drop the property value of their new homes. Just FYI also, the big mean gas station company purchased this property a few years ago and intentionally let it fall into blight to sway the minds of the townspeople. They were hoping that we would beg for them to change it to something else. This is a common strategy.
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David Strong
5 years ago
I believe this house was my Great Grandfather’s residence.
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George Smith
5 years ago
For safety factors, this place needs to expand....
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George Smith
5 years ago
Where you fools before a gas station wanted to expand and serve us better? This house is beyond repair....
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Barbara Sargent
5 years ago
I feel that this is not needed with the other food bag in town and the new gulf station we are well provided
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carol Browning
5 years ago
Please save the building and stop commercial development .
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Kathryn L Martin
5 years ago
If we continue to pave paradise and put up parking lots, where will our children play ? What will be left to remind them of our history and culture ? Aren't we trying to get away from dependency on fossil fuel? Again what message are we sending our children. How nourishing can anything be that will be available to purchase to eat in that gas station. Please let us feed our neighbors and children a wealth of history. Please save the Charles A. Strong house and preserve out town's history.
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Thomas Evans
5 years ago
While development and economic growth remains important, it should not, cannot do so at the expense of our national and cultural identity. The process of creating a historic district is a necessarily long and arduous one. Once completed, no one should be allowed to steamroller the protections created by a community or the society at large for their own personal gain.
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David Riddell
5 years ago
Not sure why they would allow them to even talk about that. A historical building should not even be discussed as a means of destroying it to make a gas station bigger when we already have one downtown. It's all about the money to be made.
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Michael Craig
5 years ago
I think historical preservation is normally garbage but better to preserve this house for people to live in than to give into the gas station goons. STOP THE GAS STATION GOONS!! Lets get #STGSG trending on social. Get 'em Blumenthal!!
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Kendra Dickinson
5 years ago
Resident of East Hampton, CT
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Jonathan O'Hea
5 years ago
Depressing that a gas station would even be an option here. Save this property and the integrity of the downtown.
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Maria Zmijewski
5 years ago
Please protect this beautiful landmark
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Henry Quinn
5 years ago
We saw the weird money grab re-zoning nonsense with Stop & Shaws. Let’s not repeat this kind of negative history.
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Anonymous
5 years ago
We don't need a huge gas station there.
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Tom Aparo
5 years ago
Used to live very close to this
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Judith Burg
5 years ago
This would be worth a restoration. It's quite unique.
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George Smith
5 years ago
It’s in total disrepair.... the current owners can’t be forced into repairing it.... i look forward to a cleaned up area... long overdue!
Best to your efforts! I am an antique dealer and appreciate preservation of the historical past.
Keep the integrity of the neighborhood!
I live across the street, and I am ripped that the town is entertaining a zone change. This is a residential neighborhood, and we purchased our house two years ago for that reason. Houses across the street and next to this property have had new families move in during the last 12 months, and it would be terrible to make this change that would immediately drop the property value of their new homes. Just FYI also, the big mean gas station company purchased this property a few years ago and intentionally let it fall into blight to sway the minds of the townspeople. They were hoping that we would beg for them to change it to something else. This is a common strategy.
I believe this house was my Great Grandfather’s residence.
For safety factors, this place needs to expand....
Where you fools before a gas station wanted to expand and serve us better? This house is beyond repair....
I feel that this is not needed with the other food bag in town and the new gulf station we are well provided
Please save the building and stop commercial development .
If we continue to pave paradise and put up parking lots, where will our children play ? What will be left to remind them of our history and culture ? Aren't we trying to get away from dependency on fossil fuel? Again what message are we sending our children. How nourishing can anything be that will be available to purchase to eat in that gas station. Please let us feed our neighbors and children a wealth of history. Please save the Charles A. Strong house and preserve out town's history.
While development and economic growth remains important, it should not, cannot do so at the expense of our national and cultural identity. The process of creating a historic district is a necessarily long and arduous one. Once completed, no one should be allowed to steamroller the protections created by a community or the society at large for their own personal gain.
Not sure why they would allow them to even talk about that. A historical building should not even be discussed as a means of destroying it to make a gas station bigger when we already have one downtown. It's all about the money to be made.
I think historical preservation is normally garbage but better to preserve this house for people to live in than to give into the gas station goons. STOP THE GAS STATION GOONS!! Lets get #STGSG trending on social. Get 'em Blumenthal!!
Resident of East Hampton, CT
Depressing that a gas station would even be an option here. Save this property and the integrity of the downtown.
Please protect this beautiful landmark
We saw the weird money grab re-zoning nonsense with Stop & Shaws. Let’s not repeat this kind of negative history.
We don't need a huge gas station there.
Used to live very close to this
This would be worth a restoration. It's quite unique.
It’s in total disrepair.... the current owners can’t be forced into repairing it.... i look forward to a cleaned up area... long overdue!