Community Corner
Letter: Preserving the South-End Fire Station Shows Fiscal Restraint
Mercer Island resident and retired architect Jerry Gropp writes in a letter to the editor that preserving the South-end Fire Station protects the legacy of professional, local architects.
Editor:
As to the now threatened South End Fire Station, the original architect was Roderick G. Parr, 210 Boyd Bldg., Mercer Island. The 1984 expansion and remodel architects were Ridenour & Cochran AIA.
These were all first rate practicing architects, I knew them all. Their work was very professional, undoubtedly restrained a bit by budgets as we were then — and should be now.
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Preserving what we have should be important to us — long-timers and those newly arrived.
(Signed)
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Jerry Gropp, Architect AIA
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