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Re: Unruh Furniture
Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2021 1:34 pm
by chaglang
Maybe HKC can hold a car wash and raise some cash.
The insurance question is an interesting one. They may not pay for a faithful reproduction of the church, so is it enough that, say, the exterior of the building is preserved minus the stained glass windows and the inside is a white box? How much does preservation allow a building to evolve in recognition that it's a furniture factory now and not a church anymore? HKC seems to tend toward putting buildings in amber, but there are more enlightened approaches.
Re: Unruh Furniture
Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2021 2:56 pm
by beautyfromashes
chaglang wrote: ↑Fri Feb 26, 2021 1:34 pm
Maybe HKC can hold a car wash and raise some cash.
The insurance question is an interesting one. They may not pay for a faithful reproduction of the church, so is it enough that, say, the exterior of the building is preserved minus the stained glass windows and the inside is a white box? How much does preservation allow a building to evolve in recognition that it's a furniture factory now and not a church anymore? HKC seems to tend toward putting buildings in amber, but there are more enlightened approaches.
But, like someone said, the insurance company will look at the building if restored and say it will take $1M to rebuild while the building would only be worth $900K. They will right a check the owner for the value and they will tear it down and move somewhere else.
Re: Unruh Furniture
Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2021 5:10 pm
by moderne
Hold put on the demolition.
Re: Unruh Furniture
Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2021 6:53 pm
by brewcrew1000
Wonder if people these save the building people would just be happy to have it as a vacate spot full vagrants, as long as the history and architecture is saved
Re: Unruh Furniture
Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2021 9:21 am
by longviewmo
flyingember wrote: ↑Fri Feb 26, 2021 10:56 am
longviewmo wrote: ↑Fri Feb 26, 2021 10:49 am
A church with a congregation probably has more $$$ backing it than a yuppie furniture shop? I mean I agree it should be saved but it’s not like their insurance will be like oh yeah we want this rebuilt.
The average congregation is 70 people with a budget of $85k
https://sites.duke.edu/ncsweb/files/201 ... _final.pdf
I know of a church that bought a commercial property years ago and they couldn't afford to be open today without it. The rent makes up a significant percentage of their budget.
church reuse into commercial or residential properties is likely the only way many of these buildings survive
Ok sure but there’s some a few standard deviations above average, especially with a century and being in the middle of a metro. One or two could’ve endowed it well enough for another century.
Re: Unruh Furniture
Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2021 5:12 pm
by moderne
Demolition back on starting Monday.
Re: Unruh Furniture
Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2021 4:38 pm
by moderne
Architectural elements salvaged for sale on Facebook marketplace.
Re: Unruh Furniture
Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2021 5:55 pm
by FangKC
Re: Unruh Furniture
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2021 11:29 pm
by KCtoBrooklyn
The building/lot adjacent to the west of this site on Main St is for sale. There could be a bit of a silver lining for this tragic loss if these two sites are filled with a nice, dense development along the streetcar extension.
Re: Unruh Furniture
Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2021 7:58 am
by Midtownkid
Somehow I feel this wasn't a coincidence, maybe intentional.
Re: Unruh Furniture
Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2021 10:37 am
by chaglang
What's your source on that?
Re: Unruh Furniture
Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2021 11:21 am
by Midtownkid
My source is purely suspension. Like I said, "I feel it was not a coincidence"
Re: Unruh Furniture
Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2021 2:55 pm
by chaglang
Feels a little irresponsible to throw that around without anything to support it.
Re: Unruh Furniture
Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2021 7:27 am
by mykn
I doubt it was intentional, for months they had been doing work to stabilize the north wall where it met the turret. The turret and wall were separating and you could see huge gaps developing. Part of 36th street was closed and they had some huge metal beams in place to support the wall from collapsing. If this was intentional, I doubt they would have gone through all that work just to have the roof collapse.
Re: Unruh Furniture
Posted: Fri May 13, 2022 5:24 pm
by KCtoBrooklyn
There is a proposal to build 8 townhomes on this site.
While I think that Midtown could defintely use some townhome infill, I still would have preferred the original church to remain or at least something denser, being right by the streetcar line.
Re: Unruh Furniture
Posted: Sun May 15, 2022 12:31 pm
by DaveKCMO
KCtoBrooklyn wrote: ↑Fri May 13, 2022 5:24 pm
There is a proposal to build 8 townhomes on this site.
While I think that Midtown could defintely use some townhome infill, I still would have preferred the original church to remain or at least something denser, being right by the streetcar line.
Something denser would be NIMBY'd.
Re: Unruh Furniture
Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2022 10:51 am
by KCtoBrooklyn
Here is a drawing for the townhomes. These are the 6 facing Walnut, with 2 others facing 36th St:
Site Plan:
Re: Unruh Furniture
Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2022 4:03 pm
by moderne
I don't understand the exterior stairs in front.
Re: Unruh Furniture
Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2022 10:02 am
by chaglang
Looks like there's a garden unit and an upper unit.
Re: Unruh Furniture
Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2022 11:28 am
by moderne
Like Quality Hill? Not really a town home then. I assumed there would be garage parking on that lower level.