We Must Accelerate Our Preservation Efforts

The Madie Carroll House Preservation Society received permission from the Greater Huntington Parks and Recreation District in 1988 to restore the Historic Madie Carroll House built in 1810 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The house is used as an historic house museum and cultural community center. This historic structure is a treasure worth preserving. There are many other homes in Huntington that deserve to be preserved for future generations of our citizens to admire. Our government leaders need to focus on identifying significant structures and neighborhoods, enforcing zoning ordinances and creating additional ordinances that will lead to identifying all historically significant homes and neighborhoods. If we continue to allow our architecturally significant homes to be subdivided and turned into multi-unit apartments, we will end up with a city consisting of only mixed-use neighborhoods. Huntington will be totally devoid of that special historic character that makes any neighborhood an attraction.

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We can do better! Do you feel that we should preserve the integrity of our historic neighborhoods through zoning laws that are intended to ensure historic preservation?

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For More information about the Madie Carroll House, click on this link: http://www.madiecarrollhouse.org/history.htm