Demolition began this week on a historic Weston home the town tried to save
The Benjamin Loring Young House was built in 1887 and was designed by William Ralph Emerson.
An elegant 1887 mansion in Weston – the Benjamin Loring Young House – is being demolished this week.
“It really was a remarkable home,’’ Marisa Morra, a member of the Weston Historical Commission, told The Boston Globe. Morra and the commission worked to save the 6,800-square-foot home that was built on grounds Frederick Law Olmsted designed.
William Ralph Emerson was the designer of the home itself. He was known for his American shingle style homes and was one of author Ralph Waldo Emerson’s cousins.
The Globe reported that back in the spring, the Weston Historical Commission offered the home’s current owners, who live in a home next door, zoning relief and $250,000 to save it.
Preservation Massachusetts named the home as one of the state’s “2014 Most Endangered Historic Resources.’’ The home was on the market at the time they added it to the list – the preservation organization was worried that “given the size of the lot, the property would be appealing to a developer and the house could be potentially razed,’’ as the home is not in one of Weston’s protected historic districts.
It seems their premonition was correct.
The Globe reported in May that the current owners wanted to tear down the Young house in order to built two more mansions next to their current home.
Read the full Boston Globe story here.
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