Preservationists, slow market help reduce teardowns
By Michael Tarm, Associated Press | December 17, 2006 | THE BOSTON GLOBE
HINSDALE, Ill. -- It was a rare occurrence in a community with a national reputation for tearing down old houses: A developer bought a historic cottage but didn't bulldoze it into oblivion.
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The norm in this leafy Chicago suburb and affluent communities around the country has been to allow builders to demolish older homes to make way for far larger, far flashier houses -- dubbed "McMansions" by critics.
But a teardown tide that surged for a decade has begun to turn, largely due to a housing-market slump, but also thanks to the growing influence of preservationists.
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