Local preservation architect Bob Vint doesn't buy the complaints about the poor condition of the house or Wallach's views on the state of the block. You have to hold the line somewhere. It's not just the individual building, it's the context. Very few buildings are outstanding enough to say let's save it because it's a great building. What you're preserving is the historic sense of place these buildings add to their context.
Old buildings are every bit as important as postage stamps.
In fact I think they're a lot more important. We're not interested in destroying history, we want to preserve history. We're not into bulldozing everything in West University. At night no one is sleeping in that house. You don't have the lights on, you don't have the movement.