After a preservation battle, that building was demolished for the present Republic National Bank, completed in 1986.
Indeed, the tour included references to lost preservation battles.
The Mayor also said he thought it was odd that a building ignored for so long had become the center of a preservation battle.
Glessner House, which was the subject of a notable preservation battle in the 1960s, is considered to be Richardson's finest urban residence.
In the mid-20th century they fought a personal historic preservation battle when they learned their home was in the proposed path of Interstate 84.
The effort to preserve this ornate, Victorian-era structure was one of the classic preservation battles of the early 1970s.
Another preservation battle erupted.
He is an advocate of landmark preservation, and has also been involved in environmental preservation battles.
Although this is one preservation battle that may be won, several others have been lost in recent months.
Most preservation battles are considered successful with much less.