Polaroid photograph of a beautiful old house on the southwest corner of Berry Street and Van Buren Street in the West Central neighborhood in downtown Fort Wayne, Indiana. The house is boarded up and a sign in front of it says that it is being renovated into five luxury condos.
The West Central neighborhood was a wealthy area of Fort Wayne at the beginning of the Twentieth Century, but by the time I was born many of the large homes had been divided into apartments and allowed to deteriorate. In the last few decades, upper-middle class professionals and wealthy people began buying them and restoring them to their original glory as single-family homes. I find it odd that this one is being turned into multi-unit housing. While the "Luxury Condos" will likely have stratospheric prices, it seems a regression for this house to end up that way.
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