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Bel Air’s Board of Town Commissioners voted Monday night to move forward with the surplus of Proctor House, a Gothic Revival house on Gordon Street formerly owned by the Board of Education and the Harford County government.
A construction company plans to buy the property for $250,000 and put as much as $450,000 into renovating and restoring it, said Bel Air Mayor Robert Preston. Continued
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Look, a lot of these buildings aren't that historic. Historic preservation is turning people into historical pack rats saving even the most marginal buildings.
Often old things are merely old and need to be discarded to make room for better things to come.
The Proctor House (pictured above), is 148 years old and is called an "important building" by Christopher Weeks in his Architectural History of Harford County. Weeks also writes that it is a rare example of its type in Harford County, the only other being Tudor Hall. Marilynn Larew writes, (in Bel Air: An Architectural and Cultural History 1782-1945), "Two of Bel Air's most distinctive houses were built in the neighborhood not long after the war : the Gothic style Proctor House around 1865 ... "
Correction: The Proctor House is 143 years old.
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