So it's no surprise that the world's Fitzgerald-ologists and experts on Long Island's faded luxe life are being besieged with queries about a 25-room, 20,000-square-foot Colonial Revival mansion called Lands End that is said, in part, to have inspired "Gatsby," and is now facing demolition so the property can be subdivided for five more modest houses, at $10 million or so each.
This suggests sensitive, incremental and respectful changes, but those residents who have been meeting the council say that it is now considering only demolition of the vast majority of the estate.
SEARS ROEBUCK & COMPANY -- -- Among the most elegant of Sears stores, this Greek Revival building in Camden was put up in 1927 as part of a beautification project and is now threatened with demolition under an effort to improve the area before this summer's Republican National Convention in Philadelphia.
A 35-metre-long mural records the march and its bloody climax in a mosaic of hand painted tiles – it is now due for demolition.
Among other examples, the series described how the district spent $3.4 million renovating a theater complex at Valley College that is now slated for demolition and how officials at West Los Angeles College spent $39 million to design and begin construction of four major buildings, only to discover that they didn't have money to complete them.
The building is now slated for partial demolition.
Sadly this library is now under threat of demolition, after barely 40 years' use, although I understand there are plans to replace it.
Nearby, little of the street art remains on Mostarka, which is now almost obliterated by demolition, on the very edge of the Belgrade Waterfront site.
Made from Minton tiles, the memorial to 498 men who lost their lives is now under threat of demolition, as the town hall, which houses it, has been put up for sale.
Parliament rejected a last-minute attempt to save what is left of the Palace of the Republic in Berlin, the home of the East German Parliament, and demolition is now expected to begin next month.
