constance_chlore
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Spruce Avenue School, which is slated for demolition, is on the National Trust for Canada's 2025 Endangered Places List.
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General Architecture & Design Discussion
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archited
Senior Member
^ Egads, there must be dozens of other uses for this building that could see it preserved. Change of Use laws at the City should have better dispensation accommodations for alternative uses otherwise this class of problem will only grow. There seems to be adequate land for building a new structure here and retaining the existing, updated in the process.
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JNO1
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^^Some shots of this little gem. Taken yesterday.
constance_chlore
Active Member
I'll have to make the trip up to see it sometime soon. (Is the Mustard Seed Church still standing? I wanted to go up to see that one again too.)
JNO1
Active Member
^ yes the Mustard Seed is still standing. Drove by it yesterday. It's in rough shape.
Here is some information on the Spruce Avenue school Replacement Project, which, unfortunately, incudes demolition of this beauty. Apparently upgrades and ongoing maintenance would be "costly". Fffffff%$#^&*
I was shocked (sarcasm) to see that Alberta Infrastructure is managing this project. Zero imagination there.
Here is some information on the Spruce Avenue school Replacement Project, which, unfortunately, incudes demolition of this beauty. Apparently upgrades and ongoing maintenance would be "costly". Fffffff%$#^&*
I was shocked (sarcasm) to see that Alberta Infrastructure is managing this project. Zero imagination there.
Gronk!
Senior Member
See, you can't blame just the city for demolishing historical buildings. The UCP government can shoulder some of that blame.
David A
Senior Member
Cheap, cheap, cheap ... times are tough and they got to find extra money somewhere to give to their friends who run private health care facilities.
constance_chlore
Active Member
Granted that the chances of reversing the decision on the Spruce Avenue school seems slim—who actually controls these decisions that we can complain to? Even if this one's as good as gone, we can still try to put on pressure to preserve the rest.
archited
Senior Member
^ UCP and their funding mandates for primary and secondary schools.
wormwood
Active Member
Write to city council and Knack. Write to the minister of education. May fall on deaf ears, but its always worth trying.
archited
Senior Member
We should start a club called 'The Grand Write-in Petitioners' with our own website and Youtube channel. It would help turn up the volume on items important to the City of Edmonton.
Those who are interested in joining sign up here
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JNO1
Active Member
The Spruce Avenue School Replacement Project page on the EPSB website has a contact email and phone # at the bottom. I sent a rather harshly worded email to that address last week and am going to call the number next week to hopefully try and chat with an actual human being about this. As you said, slim chances of reversing the inane decision but there is zero chance if those of us who actually give a $#!t about this kind of stuff don't try. Expanding on what @archited said above, maybe we could start some sort of campaign to save and repurpose this little gem via issuing some sort of RFP. Similar to the old RAM (fingers crossed). Dare to dream!!!!
archited
Senior Member
constance_chlore
Active Member
The engineering podcast Well There's Your Problem has a wonderful episode on everything wrong with five-over-ones that look like this:
(would start around 1:21:00 if you want to skip the background)
(would start around 1:21:00 if you want to skip the background)
policyenthusiast
Senior Member
Would be a shame to lose this building. It's half the character of this neighborhood, that and the house with all of the ugly tree bark on the outside.