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Save the Union Hotel in Flemington NJ

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Dawn Cooley
8 years ago

please save this building. I hate to see history being torn down.

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Lena Rondon
8 years ago

Given the history and age this building should not be demolished. If anything it should be restored and re opened

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Meagan Swartley
8 years ago

My great grandparents lived right behind the hotel at 20 Bloomfield ave during the lindbergh trial. My grandfather was an electrician in Flemington for many years. That building has always had a pull on me it was gorgeous the last time I was in it and i remember it vividly. ❤

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Julie Rizzuto
8 years ago

I love historic Flemington!!! We visit often!!!

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Jeremy Woodoff
8 years ago

Destroying this building would be a tragedy. John Kenneth Galbraith said this: “The preservation movement has one great curiosity. There is never any retrospective controversy or regret. Preservationists are the only people in the world who are invariably confirmed in their wisdom after the fact.”

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Cassandra Kalley
8 years ago

I passed by this building today, and knowing that they want to knock it down broke a piece of my heart. Development can happen even with historical architecture. And it should happen in that way. While I believe the town needs restoring, there is no need to tear down something so beautiful.

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Jerry Barrick
8 years ago

The hotel holds too much historical value to be taken away Keep this building for future generations.

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Karen Becker
8 years ago

There is absolutely no reason to demolish this building. I agree that Flemington is in need of development, but it needs the "right" development. The historic movie theater on the corner of RT 31 and Church was torn down and now we have a Walgreen's. I don't drive by there and say "WOW... what an awesome looking pharmacy." We can learn a lesson Berlin, Maryland, a town that also suffered an economic and social downfall. In 2014 it was named America's Coolest Small Town. Check it out.... https://berlinmd.gov/

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Amy Beth Carducci
8 years ago

Stop destroying our history!!

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Jenna Totten
8 years ago

Loosing the Fairgrounds and speedway was enough. Lets keep the only character Flemington has left

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JoAnne Wolke
9 years ago

No to demolition!

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Leslie Hamilton Antiskay
9 years ago

We have farmland preservation, now we need historical buildings preservation. People want to destroy what they don't understand. What makes Hunterdon county special is the farmland, open land, and historical buildings. Today the target of folly is the Union Hotel and 78 Main Street, tomorrow it may be the covered bridge...

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Teresa Martin
9 years ago

Save historical buildings Flemington NJ!

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ellen whited
9 years ago

Keep our heritage.

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Anonymous
9 years ago

If a building is listed as historic AND is being used, how can it be demolished?

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Kristina Polhemus
9 years ago

I worked in this building and so did my mother-a shame to destroy it.....

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C J Neidlinger
9 years ago

Lived in Flemington my entire life of 67 years. My father's family lived here for many generations. It would be a crime to see theses historical buildings come down. It will not entice new business. The construction will be abominable to those who live on Main, Park, Broad, Spring, Maple and all other close streets. Look at Liberty village, it is no longer successful and no longer attracts tourism. Demolishing the buildings will be a failed enterprise. The old theatre is another example, it was a crime to destroy and ruin it. Work with what we have, improve,repair, upgrade a little....don't demolish.

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Kristina Polhemus
9 years ago

My home town. Do not destroy historical buildings!

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Ludie Stevens
9 years ago

What is Flemington without the Union Hotel?

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Cyndi Frascella
9 years ago

Praying to save the hotel!