{"id":1092,"date":"2012-05-07T22:24:21","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T02:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/?p=1092"},"modified":"2012-05-08T00:13:04","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T04:13:04","slug":"fergus-falls-city-council-calls-for-demolition-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/fergus-falls-city-council-calls-for-demolition-plans","title":{"rendered":"Fergus Falls City Council Calls for Demolition Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the May 7th Fergus Falls City Council meeting, the council voted unanimously in favor of drawing up demolition plans for most of the city&#8217;s beautiful, 100+ year-old Kirkbride building. The central administration section will probably be preserved, but the wings will be destroyed under the proposed plan. This vote came in spite of a substantial showing of public support for full preservation. According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fergusfallsjournal.com\/2012\/05\/07\/council-approves-first-step-in-rtc-demo-process\/\">Fergus Falls Journal<\/a>, about 200 people showed up for the meeting and the council chamber was filled to overflowing.<\/p>\n<p>So yet another Kirkbride is likely fated to become to a mere fragment of its former self. Such a shame that something couldn&#8217;t be done to save it. It is <em>some<\/em> consolation that at least a part of the structure would be saved. Hopefully that at least will happen. In my opinion, it&#8217;s really the wings that are the most beautiful part of the Fergus Falls Kirkbride though, at least in terms of the building&#8217;s exterior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the May 7th Fergus Falls City Council meeting, the council voted unanimously in favor of drawing up demolition plans for most of the city&#8217;s beautiful, 100+ year-old Kirkbride building. The central administration section will probably be preserved, but the wings will be destroyed under the proposed plan. This vote came in spite of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,28,5],"tags":[15,159],"class_list":["post-1092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-demolition","category-news","tag-fergus-falls","tag-fergus-falls-state-hospital"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1094,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions\/1094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}