Daily News | A developer demolishes a 130-old stone mansion in Mount Airy and neighbors have questions
When developer Christiane Murray bought a 130-year-old stone mansion on Carpenter Lane last November, some Mount Airy residents hoped it would be preserved, perhaps as part of a new senior housing community.
“The developer made claims that the house was in horrible shape. But I can say with confidence that it was a very salvageable building,” said Morrie Zimmerman, an architect and Mount Airy resident who has done extensive preservation work. “I have no problem with people buying land and making their own vision,” Herman said. “I don’t want anybody to tell me I can’t have a wildflower meadow on my property. But we didn’t even get a simple email letting us know what to expect.”in 1892 for businessman Sidney Longstreth Wright, who helped shape Mount Airy’s early development and enduring character. The Archdiocese of Philadelphia purchased the house in 1954 and operated a group home for young women there until the pandemic struck.
Winter and her family live on a row of homes that is separated from the retaining wall by a narrow alley where neighborhood kids often play. The remains of 157 Carpenter are visible from her backyard, into which dust drifted during the first day of demolition work, she said.by the city’s Department of Licenses and Inspections in response to complaints from nearby residents. On Wednesday, crews were back at work “with no communication to neighbors once again,” Winter said.
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