The local paper did a write-up and the state of some local historical buildings.
1. The Houghton Sulky Building is for sale. It was originally the First Methodist Centenary Church and built around 1845. It was later owned by the Jerald Sulky Company. The owners have allowed the historical society to remove items of significance. The building is in bad shape.
Must have been a great place to make sulkies, whatever they are or were. Perhaps equipment for some type of horse racing.
2. On the 1895 Marantha Baptist Church the stained glass windows are buckling and slate is falling off the roof.
3. The Marion County Courthouse (built 1884-1885) also needs a lot of work. Estimates call for $10 million.
4. Brothers Merle and Oliver Hamilton have restored the Linn Schoolhouse to its pre-1900s and donated it to the Marion County Historical Society. It has recently won an honor from the National trust for Historic Preservation.
These two brothers are to be congratulated for their efforts. They are True Preservationists.
5. The old Marion Library (1915-1920) is now part of the Trinity Baptist Church and has been completely restored. It also was a Carnegie library.
Losing a Lot, Winning Some. --Wahoo
RoadDog's RoadLog Blog: Being my travels down those great two lane highways of this nation as well as news I learn about them from media sources. Since I'm also very interested in historic preservation, there will be a lot of that as well.
The Shamrock Court Motel in Sullivan, Missouri. It can be yours for $125,000. Lots of possibilities. Actually, now you're too late. Missouri's Roamin' Rich bought it.
2 comments:
A sulky is a pair of shafts, a pair of wheels, and not much of anything else. It's used in harness racing where some guy sits on a scrap of cloth between the wheels, props his feet on the shafts, and urges the critter he's attached to haul him around as fast as possible. Great fun.
I sure don't think I'd want to sit behind a horse on that contraption.
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