Hyperblogal offers some interesting pix of the Thacher School from 20 years ago . . . Back when it was a working building and before the tailspin of the KCPS was complete . . .
NBC Action News: KCMO school could be torn down in summer
NBC Action News: KCMO school could be torn down in summer
I would like to take pictures of the current interior but KCPS refuses to allow it. In competent hands the building could easily be moth-balled until a use could be found. Note: I said competent hands.
ReplyDeleteIt's not the district's job to mothball buildings that will never be used again for educational purposes. Thatcher was available for sale. No one purchased it. It was burned, damaged, and looted. No buyer + damaged building = expenses playing landlord that should be directed to the classrooms of buildings currently open.
ReplyDeleteI love Thatcher too. I volunteered there about 15 years ago and loved the building, the history, and the kids. But that school is gone. The shell is left.
You are so very, very wrong and emblematic of the reason we lose more of our history everyday.
ReplyDeleteThe district has pictures of the interior and it is garbage. I will grant you that J.C.Nichols was in disrepair when Academy Lafayette rehabbed it, but that took countless volunteer hours from parents.
ReplyDeleteI think the way to save the building would have been for the community to attend the repurposing meetings last year and come up with a solution for it then... It's a little late to cry about it now.
A total lack of critical thinking affects everyone of your posts including this one. If we followed your thinking we wouldn't have Union Station, The President Hotel, Blossom House, Webster House, the Lyric Theater, the Folly Theater... and I could go on and on but I know I lost you at "A".
ReplyDeleteSometimes, it's just time to move on from saving old building and old neighborhoods - but only when OLD THINKING by neighborhood residents makes future viability impossible.
ReplyDeleteNortheast is a classic example of OLD THINKING by residents: Residents oppose changing status quo, residents keep relationships with the slumlords who pretend to be good for new commerce, residents choose bullshiting-care-nothing politicians like Wagner and Rizzo, Residents don't hold their "news"paper accountable for what it writes, and residents are resistant to change - yet they want different results. Dumb.