So, if you read my last post you read about the Door to Nowhere – in Winchester House and here in Dnepropetrovsk. We pass this house every morning and usually every evening. A few weeks ago we noticed they were cleaning up the area under the door and putting in boards that looked to be preparing for concrete being poured. Sure enough in time there was concrete poured and then it sat and sat and we wondered why they had poured concrete and what they were planning. Renovations perhaps – another entrance to the apartment perhaps. Then last week one day they started building with concrete blocks. So here is the door originally.
The Door to Nowhere
Then the new construction:
Building outside the door to nowhere!
Close up of the construction.
Yesterday afternoon we did not go home our normal way. We went out to eat with another senior couple who were visiting here (Historians from the Kyiv Mission – Elder and Sister Humpherys) and came home a different way. As we walked past the house on our way to work this morning we were surprised that the construction (which had been completed up above the door and was enclosed so we had no idea what it was for) was GONE! The only sign that it had ever been there were some marks on the walls.
Later I was reading the local news and found this article with accompanying photos.
First, here is the article:
“In the Dnieper bulldozer “saved” the last wooden house in the city.
“On June 5, an illegal annex was demolished, adjacent to the only wooden house in the city, which is located on Krutogornaya Street.
“This is reported by the press service of the City Council of the Dnieper.
“The wooden house was built in the end of the XIX century and is a historical monument.
“In the hands of the residents there, and there can not be permits for an extension. They showed us only a technical report on the condition of the load-bearing structures of the house. Therefore, we decided to dismantle this structure. They have no options: the house is an architectural monument. For completion, you need to get a lot of documents. And the residents can not decide for themselves that a toilet made of aerated concrete will be built near the house, “said Mikhail Lysenko, deputy mayor of the Dnieper.
“Illegal completion was made by the owners of the apartment, who bought housing in December 2017. In it they wanted to place a toilet. According to the owner of the apartment Anna Nikolaevna, they decided that they can build, because there is an extension on the plan. However, according to Mikhail Lysenko, this is not enough and for construction it is necessary to have permission from the State Architectural Construction Inspection.”
Historical? Wow, that was interesting to read about. So here are the photos that accompanied the article:
Demolition – 01
Demolition – 02
Demolition – 03
Demolition – 04
Demolition – 05
So that is the rest of the story. Imagine they were adding an “outside” toilet! There is always something exciting. The bad news is we might have seen it happening had we walked home our usual way. The good news is after our shock at seeing the house this morning we were able to learn about what happened.