Meanwhile, in London, there is 23-24 Leinster Gardens, W2, where two terrace houses were demolished in 1867 to make what is now the District Line, and replaced with a convincing-looking and well kept-up façade.
When I lived at the end of Holden Street, North Fitzroy (map here), there was a house across the road which was condemned because it stood in the way of maintaining/replacing a water main that ran immediately beneath it. It had stood there for a year or two at least, slowly falling apart, no light emanating from its windows; at one point, a notice was attached to its front, detailing a plan to, after demolishing the house, build a façade across the front of the lot, in keeping with the neighbourhood's character. I don't know whether this has happened, or whether there is now a convincing pseudohouse in North Fitzroy; as of August 2004, the empty house was still standing, slowly, sadly falling apart.
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Posted by: kstop | | Tue Jun 13 20:30:22 2006
Dublin has a telephone switch building smack dab in the middle of the Temple Bar tourist trap, it's in an old brick building that fits the character of the area a lot better than some of the refurbished buildings around it. But they don't make any attempt to hide the racks inside, so it looks like a Georgian brick case mod for a supercomputer.