From Florida-The building that once housed St. Michael’s Episcopal Church, located at 4315 NW 23rd Avenue in Gainesville, is being torn down.
Deconstruction on the building began Wednesday, within hours of the City of Gainesville issuing a demolition permit.
The move comes after the Episcopal Diocese of Florida, headquartered in Jacksonville, made a last-minute motion to demolish the building amid community backlash and the possibility that the building itself would be marked as a historic landmark. St. Michael’s Episcopal Church was on the agenda for the next meeting of Gainesville’s Historic Preservation Board, which is scheduled for Jan. 2. Marking the building a historic landmark would have secured its preservation for at least one more year.
“It affects everyone,” said Morris Hylton, the president of Modern Gainesville, a local nonprofit aimed at preserving mid-century architecture. “It’s an architectural landmark deserving of preservation.”
More here-
https://www.wuft.org/news/2018/12/27/st-michael-episcopal-church-torn-down-ahead-of-meeting-that-might-have-preserved-it/
also here (video)
https://www.wcjb.com/video?vid=503581842
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