The Hyde Park apartment building where President Ronald Reagan grew up met with a bulldozer this week thanks to the University of Chicago.
The Chicago-based dwelling is where Reagan called home for a few years as a child, but DNAinfo.com reports it’s being demolished by the university, which owns the land.
The university plans to install a plaque, but although “preservationists had tried to save the building, (they) were unable to persuade city or university officials that the gas-lit apartment where Reagan lived from ages 2 to 3 was historically significant,” the website reported.
Mary Claire Kendall, president of Friends of President Reagan’s Chicago Home, said her group wrote to university President Robert Zimmer on Jan. 9, but never received a reply, which she attributed to “high-level politics.”
“We did, however, reach out to major players with means and influence who could talk with President Zimmer but it is unclear what, if any, contact was made,” Kendall said. “I am certain, however, my message was reinforced through back channels — namely that we wanted to work with the university to preserve the home and transform it into a museum and center.”
The university said it has no immediate plans to build on the property. … Despite rumors, the university has repeatedly stated that the site will not be used for a Barack Obama presidential library.
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