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The Pain and Lessons Of the Kirby Mansion Demolition — With a Houston Landmark Reduced to Rubble, Preservationists Try to Regroup

The Pain and Lessons Of the Kirby Mansion Demolition — With a Houston Landmark Reduced to Rubble, Preservationists Try to Regroup
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The Kirby Mansion now looks like the aftermath of a violent collision — a wreckage of red brick, pale plaster and splintered timber beneath a brilliant blue Houston sky. The mansion’s entrails lie heaped behind the broad front steps. Honey-brown boards jut from the rubble at broken angles. Fragme...

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