Monday, January 25, 2016

Ten Historically Significant Sites Destroyed for Awful Reasons-- Part 1

From the June 19, 2013, Listverse.

10.  MOMA, Museum of Modern Art in New York City, for expansion, destroyed the American Folk Museum, a brownstone home that belonged to John D. Rockefeller, the Dorset Hotel and the City Athletic Club.

9.  A Civil Eights site destroyed in South Carolina for a store.

8.  William Shakespeare's House in Stratford-Upon-Avon where it is said that he wrote some of his later work.  Destroyed in 1755.

7.  Ancient Chinese grave sites destroyed by thieves breaking into at least 900 tombs.

6.  Ancient Taoist Temple in Beijing, China.  680 years old destroyed for 2008 Olympics.

More to Come.  --DaCoot


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