I'm not actually petty enough to hold this against Pastor Walker, to be clear, just saying things
This building is not one of the stars of the show - not particularly visually or historically notable. The nomination survey materials for the NRHP-designated Bryn Mawr Historic District 30 years ago were fairly broad, like many NRHP nominations are. Too broad to mirror for city protection, IMO.
Current* conditions near Beaver Bay, MN:
Lake Superior! Live!
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Soren Spicknall
This is one reason why I'm not generally in favor of transposing the contours of an existing NRHP district directly onto a new city Landmark district. The two designations have different purposes and different regulatory teeth (that is, a city designation has teeth and an NRHP designation doesn't).
I was hoping to convert the old Camry's AC system from R12 to R134a this week or next, but I can't do that if I can't touch the car
The property lists in NRHP district nominations tend to be pretty expansive, to try to make the case that an area is worth recognizing. Often, those expansive NRHP lists put more properties in the "contributing" bucket than warrant serious protection, because NRHP acceptance doesn't *do* anything.
When Pastor Walker commissioned these custom water bottle labels, I doubt she anticipated that a congregant would toss it onto a sidewalk as trash later and make her look bad
One silly aftereffect of last week's storms is that my project car is trapped in a garage because the door opener spontaneously reprogrammed itself when the power came back on, the guy I share the garage with locked the side door key inside the garage, and the landlord hasn't come out to fix it yet.
When defining a municipal landmark district in a city like Chicago where that status confers demolition protections, permit hurdles, etc., the criteria for contributing vs. non-contributing should be tighter than the NRHP to avoid situations like this one where a nondescript building is now a PITA.
Bryn Mawr has some buildings that are certainly notable enough and pretty enough to constitute a city landmark district, but this is not one of them. The fact that it was a contributing structure under the NRHP district does not mean that it should be considered contributing under the city district.
