CITY SEEKS RESTORER TO SAVE HOUSE PALMDALE'S OLDEST HOME GRANTED A TEMPORARY DEMOLITION REPRIEVE.Byline: Peggy Hager Staff Writer QUARTZ HILL - The 112-year-old Godde house has escaped the demolition crew a second time. With only one day left on a Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County citation requiring that the dilapidated wood-frame house be moved, demolished or boarded up, the James R. Nash Construction Co. came to the rescue for the home's owner, the Quartz Hill Town Council. Construction workers Ron Johnson Ron Johnson is the name of:
``They're donating the materials and the labor to board it up so we can meet the (county)'s citation time request,'' said Quartz Hill Town Council member Sheila Kennedy Sheila Kennedy is a model and actress who was the December 1981 Penthouse Pet of the Month and the 1983 Penthouse Pet of the Year. She moved on to acting, mostly in low-budget sex comedies, such as Ellie, The First Turn-On!, and . Now vacant and vandalized, the house built by pioneer rancher Max Godde had been destined des·tine tr.v. des·tined, des·tin·ing, des·tines 1. To determine beforehand; preordain: a foolish scheme destined to fail; a film destined to become a classic. 2. for demolition to make room for a housing tract, until last month when Quartz Hill council member Ed Frommer offered it a temporary resting site beside his home. But the day the house was trucked the half-mile to Frommer's property, a county inspector issued him a citation labeling the structure an attractive nuisance Noun 1. attractive nuisance - anything on your premises that might attract children into danger or harm; "their swimming pool is an attractive nuisance; they should fence it in" , Kennedy said. The house may have been the oldest in Palmdale. Assessor's records indicate it was built in 1890 by one of three Godde brothers who moved to the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley to farm after emigrating from Germany. The home was enlarged in 1910. Max Godde and his wife, Elizabeth, lived there together for more than 50 years, raising eight children. ``What's amazing a·maze v. a·mazed, a·maz·ing, a·maz·es v.tr. 1. To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise. 2. Obsolete To bewilder; perplex. v.intr. is the amount of people that are coming by, and stopping,'' said Frommer. ``Local neighbors are coming by and they're behind us 100 percent for saving the house.'' The house's age was discovered by Palmdale resident Roy Ramirez, who lives near its original location, while he was doing research to fight the city's approval of the housing tract. The Quartz Hill Town Council is now accepting offers from any organization that would like to restore the building. Suggestions have included converting it to a Farm Bureau office, genealogical library or historical society museum, Kennedy said. ``We're giving them 30 days to submit a letter of intent, then we're going to decide what the procedures will be for letting it go,'' Kennedy said. ``We'd like to see it saved obviously and to be used for something like a museum or library or office space for some historical society,'' said Frommer. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- color) Ron Johnson, left, from the building contractor building contractor n → contratista m/f de obras building contractor n → entrepreneur m (en bâtiment) building contractor firm James R. Nash boards up the old Godde house as Quartz Hill council members Ed Frommer and Sheila Kennedy watch. (2 -- color) Construction worker Ron Johnson screws plywood panels over the doors and windows of Palmdale's oldest house. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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