After a long effort by the owner to keep the building intact as a historical site, a Dallas court ordered demolition. Items from the Oswald apartment were auctioned. History is demolished by time.
City of Dallas to raze 600 Elsbeth this week, ending years of fighting over former Oswald apartment
By Robert Wilonsky
rwilonsky@dallasnews.com
Dallas Morning News
8:19 am on January 7, 2013
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Come week’s end, 600 Elsbeth will be no more. Finally.
That’s according to this morning’s letter from city of Dallas Senior Assistant City Attorney Andrew Gilbert, who says the city’s through messing around with the Oak Cliff apartment complex where Lee Harvey and Marina Oswald lived from November 1962 till March of ’63. Long story short: A judge ordered its demolition in the summer of 2011, and owner Jane Bryant of Align LP fought off the bulldozers as long as she could. But enough’s enough, says Gilbert…
The city maintains it’s a hazard; others, a roadblock to further development in the Bishop Arts District.
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