Before flattening it with a the biggest backhoe I've ever seen, we speculated about the unusually authorized razing. We wondered if they would keep the facade, a common technique for skirting the historic designation constraints. But apparently the hoarding inside left the structure in such a state that that backhoe was allowed to just drop down on that 100-year-old brick, that exquisite chimney with two ornate brick caps, the stained glass in the entrance window, the arched living room window.