Comments on: Asbestos Concerns Put Demolition Of Old Town Owned Building On Hold

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 20:59:54 +0000

would you really want your tax money going into repairing abandoned buildings?

Yes, I know you don’t want it going into rebuilding Afghanistan or Iraq just because we blew a bunch of it up, but that doesn’t mean it’s an either/or situation: either spend money on Afghanistan or spend money on the old pharmacy.

By: 429SCJ

429SCJ — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 12:15:40 +0000

Im glad we wrote all that red ink rebuilding Iraq, otherwise we might be restoring historical buildings and infrastructure here in America. That would be terrible.

By: Allen Stewart

Allen Stewart — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:12:56 +0000

Kind of sad to see the old “Century Drugstore” have the need of demolition. However, though, the apparent condition of such indicates a condition which is not worthy of being salvaged.
Just a simply quality of sadness involved within the comments of above due to the aspect that my father, Dr. T.J. Stewart spent the better part of his time in Century within the upper levels of such building.
Perhaps, though, there is the consideration that “there comes a time.”

Allen Stewart

By: no one special

no one special — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 15:41:30 +0000

I wonder if the elevator has been salvaged. The small portion of the old drug store building that protrudes from the rest is where the elevator was installed. It originally came from the Hauss mansion where the James Houston Jones Historical Park now stands. Hope if possible it could be rescued.

By: 429SCJ

429SCJ — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:31:53 +0000

Some way this building seems so Century. I do not think the town will be the same without it. I bet the areas property values and taxes increase.