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Thursday, March 30, 2006
Ind. Law - "New Albany lawyer restores historic buildings in spare time"
"New Albany lawyer restores historic buildings in spare time" is the headline to a feature by Ben Zion Hershberg in the Louisville Courier Journal, complete with photos. Some quotes:
New Albany lawyer Stephen Beardsley loves sawdust and nails and even the hunt for old steel columns to match the ones in the downtown buildings he's restoring.Every weekend -- and even on some vacations, like the one he's on now -- Beardsley said he works on the 19th century buildings he owns on Pearl Street near Market Street.
"It's redemptive work," he said, "not only for the buildings. It does something for the soul."
City Planner Scott Wood hopes Beardsley's work on the buildings he owns on Pearl Street -- built in the early 1870s -- also will do something for downtown.
Beardsley's office is on the first floor of the three-story building at the corner of Market and Pearl streets, and he lives on the second and third floors.
He also owns the two or three adjoining buildings on Pearl Street -- depending upon how you determine where one adjoining structure ends and the other begins.
"He wants to rehabilitate the storefronts to approximate their original appearance," said Wood, who as director of the city's Historic Preservation Commission saw Beardsley's renovation plans win approval from the agency late last year.
The commission must approve work on building exteriors in the city's historic districts, including the downtown district.
"I think visually," Wood said, "there is a real powerful effect" from restoring the facades in the city's central business district.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on March 30, 2006 08:38 AM
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