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Chateau Miranda is here to break your heart…built 1866-1907 demolished 2017. Because the owner did not want to sell it to the municipality.

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  1. raffmaister says

    Where is it? Any more info on the building?

  2. Remseey2907 says

    Article: https://www.messynessychic.com/2018/08/02/chateau-miranda-is-here-to-break-your-heart/
    What a Harry Potter filmset this would have made! Unforgiveable….

  3. killevra says

    What good reason could the owner possibly have had to rather pay for demolition instead of selling? it boggles my mind…

  4. tnadsirhc says

    Wow. Super sad. Reminds me of the old Millionaires Row in Cleveland. Most of those beautiful old mansions never lasted more than a generation or two because they decided to tear them down so they couldn’t be used for public housing.

  5. slopeclimber says

    Why was it legal to demolish it?

  6. themostmlgname says

    🙁

  7. False-God says

    Title is kind of misleading. From reading the article OP posted it seems like the owner wanted to destroy it, locals did a petition to save it, but the municipality didn’t have the logistics in place to maintain it. He didn’t destroy it just because because the city wanted it.

    From the article:

    “Locals tried to save the 19th century, Neo-Gothic Miranda from demolition last year with a 5,000 signature petition— but the logistics of keeping such a place alive and kicking are tricky. And expensive. We just don’t live in an era conducive to the upkeep of feudal-y estates”

  8. Dawnv8 says

    What an ass

  9. LucretiusCarus says

    You mean [Lecter castle](https://hannibal.fandom.com/wiki/Castle_Lecter)

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