{"id":98,"date":"2008-07-18T06:00:25","date_gmt":"2008-07-18T10:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/?p=98"},"modified":"2008-07-21T01:42:20","modified_gmt":"2008-07-21T05:42:20","slug":"bryce-hospital-landmark-intrigue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/bryce-hospital-landmark-intrigue","title":{"rendered":"Bryce Hospital Landmark Intrigue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/images\/2008\/07\/18\/1a.jpg\" alt=\"Bryce Hospital\" width=\"484\" height=\"358\" \/>There&#8217;s a story on <em>TuscaloosaNews.com <\/em>about efforts to get Bryce Hospital designated a national historic landmark: <a title=\"Panel Urges Landmark Protection for Bryce\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tuscaloosanews.com\/article\/20080716\/NEWS\/954258062\/1007\/NEWS02&amp;title=Panel_urges_landmark_protection_for_Bryce\" target=\"_blank\">Panel Urges Landmark Protection for Bryce<\/a>. The application for landmark status has to be made within a month, but much like that fickle girlfriend or boyfriend we&#8217;ve all had at one time in our lives, the University of Alabama wants to keep its options open. So far it has opposed the landmark application. The school plans to <a title=\"Possible Sale of Bryce Hospital\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/possible-sale-of-bryce-hospital\">purchase the Bryce Hospital property<\/a> when the hospital moves in a year or so, and seems to believe that landmark status will somehow &#8220;hurt the university if it owned the building.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If I were the pessimistic type, I&#8217;d say it sounds like UA is considering demolishing the Kirkbride even though <a title=\"Bryce Hospital in the News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/bryce-hospital-in-the-news\">they say otherwise<\/a>. I can&#8217;t think of any other reason they&#8217;d oppose an historic landmark designation, especially since it would make the building eligible for federal preservation funds.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also not exactly sure why the university even has a say in this at all, but my guess is no one wants to sour the deal whereby they&#8217;ll purchase the property.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo credit: A Friend.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a story on TuscaloosaNews.com about efforts to get Bryce Hospital designated a national historic landmark: Panel Urges Landmark Protection for Bryce. The application for landmark status has to be made within a month, but much like that fickle girlfriend or boyfriend we&#8217;ve all had at one time in our lives, the University of Alabama [&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":[1,5,3],"tags":[87,88,198],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-news","category-preservation","tag-bryce","tag-bryce-hospital","tag-landmark"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","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=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kirkbridebuildings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}