A few months after the post office decamped for muchmorecramped quarters in Playhouse Square, work has begun on the stately old building.
It’s being transformed into a restaurant. The cuisine and name have not been announced, but it will feature 14-foot ceilings, a large bar, and outdoor dining.
A view from Bay Street shows the door to the (former) postmaster’s office is wide open.
Meanwhile, removal of planting in front of the building reveals a cornerstone. Let’s hope the renovation spares this little piece of local history.
I second that emotion!
Maybe your highlighting that engraving will keep it from going into a dumpster or being ‘smoothed over’. It’s a real marker of Westport’s importance to the democrats when the party was at its most vivacious & successful.
“It’s a real marker of Westport’s importance to the democrats when the party was at its most vivacious & successful.”
Maybe if that party hadn’t sucked the Tax Payers dry with all of their entitlement programs…..our economy would be better off by now.
Unfortunately the dems don’t get it and their answer to it all is tax “the rich” (which now includes everyone making 250k even though the fraud-in-chief only talks about millionaires and billionaires as if no one will notice).
Actually the fraud in chief lied. The new tax rates apply to joint returns of $250,000. So, if you make $50,000 and your spouse makes $200,000 and you file jointly, your tax rates is goinf up. For two income families filing jointly, it is a tax rate hike on the middle class.
Don’t blame the politicians of that time for providing ‘enabling-productive-benevolent legislation’ because they failed to anticipate that too many within future generations would find a way to make use of the ‘entitlement aspect’ unnecessarily.
Is there any indication of this cornerstone being saved or trashed?