  Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765 Post Number: 1933 Registered: 01-2004 |
Slumpy was demolished today - nothing remains. | ||
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765 Post Number: 1934 Registered: 01-2004 |
wow - what an irony considering Lowell is immortalizing her as we speak, and now shes gone. Rest easy ol girl. | ||
Rfban Member Username: Rfban Post Number: 191 Registered: 02-2004 |
The livingstone home, just a memory now... Remember this 20 years from now. (Message edited by rfban on September 16, 2007) | ||
Bohemianrobot Member Username: Bohemianrobot Post Number: 53 Registered: 02-2007 |
I almost feel sort of sad, though it's better off demolished. RIP, Old Slumpy. | ||
Douglasm Member Username: Douglasm Post Number: 936 Registered: 10-2003 |
Feel like I've lost a friend.... | ||
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936 Post Number: 1923 Registered: 01-2005 |
Dang. Sad end to a magnificent structure. A curse on the idiots that tried to move it in the first place. | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 10226 Registered: 12-2003 |
It's a conspiracy... | ||
Southen Member Username: Southen Post Number: 280 Registered: 08-2006 |
Wow I was planning on photographing Slumpy this week. Im really kind of sad, had a strange bond with that structure. RIP Slumpy http://www.flickr.com/photos/s outhen/490300425/in/set-720575 94049563033/ | ||
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765 Post Number: 1935 Registered: 01-2004 |
Geez, it would be great if somebody got this event photographed for history's sake............. dETROITfUNK RULEZ ! http://www.detroitfunk.com/200 7/09/16/the_death_of_slumpy.ht m | ||
Catman_dude Member Username: Catman_dude Post Number: 214 Registered: 03-2006 |
Thank you, Mauser (or is it DetroitFunk?) for documenting poor Slumpy's final days. | ||
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936 Post Number: 1928 Registered: 01-2005 |
Thank you, dETROIT fUNK. Good job. | ||
Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 6362 Registered: 10-2003 |
Slumpy is dead... LONG LIVE SLUMPY! | ||
Tammypio Member Username: Tammypio Post Number: 154 Registered: 04-2005 |
Aww Slumpy...we hardly knew ye! I never thought I'd be so close to shedding a tear over a building, yet I am. | ||
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell Post Number: 4149 Registered: 10-2003 |
Amazing shots Mauser. It's like a sad derelict but very classy friend has died. Last night I was at the Art Gallery of Windsor for the opening of their urban architecture theme exhibitions, including AIW's "Modern Architecture in Windsor" and Walkerpub's "Albert Kahn in Windsor". In a presentation for the latter, I learned that the Livingstone house was the young Albert Kahn's first commission. What an coincidence that it would be come down while I was painting the recreative painting "Open House". | ||
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell Post Number: 4151 Registered: 10-2003 |
The Livingstone House nine days ago.   | ||
Lefty2 Member Username: Lefty2 Post Number: 137 Registered: 07-2007 |
'ol slumpy is now 'ol stumpy (Message edited by lefty2 on September 16, 2007) | ||
Hpgrmln Member Username: Hpgrmln Post Number: 173 Registered: 06-2007 |
Its hard to believe anyone would allow a neighborhood of such castle-like homes to become several blocks of fields, rubble,and empty shells. Slumpy was just one of many architectural housing gems left to rot, but a perfect example of the plight of all of them. I wish I could go back in time and see firsthand what that area looked like. | ||
Legsdiamond Member Username: Legsdiamond Post Number: 50 Registered: 01-2005 |
'tis a damn shame. I wanted to live in Slumpy. | ||
Raggedclaws Member Username: Raggedclaws Post Number: 48 Registered: 08-2006 |
Hpgrmln...your comments are spot-on. Hard to imagine how a city that is "rising !" could let a treasure like that fade & crumble. I think the sentiment on this thread (except for a few) reflects the attitude responsible for this ...joking about it, making light of it, etc... And before anyone asks "what did you do to help preserve it...?" I tried and I don't need to give any of you the details to prove it. What a shame. | ||
Pam Member Username: Pam Post Number: 2614 Registered: 11-2005 |
quote: There is new development and rehab of old homes in this area. http://www.modeldmedia.com/Sea rch.aspx?searchterm=brush%20pa rk | ||
Danny Member Username: Danny Post Number: 6521 Registered: 02-2004 |
Adieu, to the the David Livingstone House. Some folks here Detroit don't appreciate fine historical buildings. Nothing's sacred in Detroit anymore. So let's go on and some useless 21st Century junk. | ||
Goat Member Username: Goat Post Number: 9818 Registered: 10-2003 |
Why did the University keep it just so it could fall apart? I am sure someone would have purchased it before it got to the state it was in. | ||
Cris Member Username: Cris Post Number: 465 Registered: 10-2003 |
I understand the reason for the house's demise was a botched attempt to move it to a new location a few years ago. Why was it moved? The fact that there was an attempt to move it means, to me, that there was some effort toward preservation. It wasn't just abandoned and left to rot (like so many other Detroit houses in the past). | ||
Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 6363 Registered: 10-2003 |
quote: Apparently so they could wait 15 years to demolish it. | ||
Michmeister Member Username: Michmeister Post Number: 246 Registered: 10-2006 |
No, it was MOVED, abandoned, then left to rot. Houses like that should be preserved for the ages so our children can see that there is something better than what is being built today. | ||
Chitaku Member Username: Chitaku Post Number: 1599 Registered: 03-2006 |
slumpy oh slumpy so tall and so proud always good looking, the head of the crowd, Then big bad Kwame with his minions so mean knocked slumpy to the ground, tryin' to keep the town clean. | ||
6nois Member Username: 6nois Post Number: 502 Registered: 11-2006 |
It is truly a sad day, but we have no one to blame but ourselves. | ||
Viziondetroit Member Username: Viziondetroit Post Number: 1103 Registered: 11-2003 |
Everything can't be saved... just imagine if that was next door to your house. | ||
Rocket_city Member Username: Rocket_city Post Number: 400 Registered: 04-2006 |
So long as her organs weren't donated to a trendy development in Chicago... | ||
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765 Post Number: 1936 Registered: 01-2004 |
The neighbors - especially the one just to the east of slumpy - were quite distressed about the demolition. They attended the relevant City meetings, and several people I talked to tried to get the property and save the structure. Demolition by red tape. Everybody in the area knew exactly who Slumpy was and who designed her. Sometimes stuff just gets all fudged up. |
