When the hangers are brought down...

[ghunt]

Does anyone know if, when the Fieldhouse is torn-down, if they will be making available or selling any pieces of it like seats or anything else? I sure hope they do. They could raise a few dollars that way, and it would make some of us happy to have a piece of tradition in our basements

On a smaller scale, I regret not making it up not to get a chunck of Spalding gym before they took it down. Anyone know if there is any piece of that to be had?

Just to voice a general opinion--I'm the farthest thing from a building hugger, but I wish Peoria woud do a better job of some historic preservation. Yes, by-the-way, I agree we really do need better facilities for the athletic programs and I do agree with what they are doing. Howver, along the lines of near-post-mortum curiosity, was there any thought to retaining the shell of the field house or any elements at all?

 

[Beninator]

I have had the same thought about this... I would have to bet that plaques made up with parts of the fieldhouse floor will be made available soon after the fieldhouse is torn down.

 

[ph]

On a national basis, you usually only hear about old seats or bricks being sold.

Most anything else is either too time/money consuming to remove in one piece or contains traces of bad stuff like lead paint or asbestos

Are you hoping for a trough in your basement :-o

 

[MacabreMob]

Are you hoping for a trough in your basement :-o

 

[Big Mike]

HEY......I wouldn't mind a couple of the theatre seats in my basesment.........I agree it would bring in some $'s!

 

[tornado]

What if someone filed a lawsuit declaring the Fieldhouse a HISTORIC Building,
and got legislation passed that stops it from being torn down...
I know this sounds silly, but it has happened before....
It almost happened on one other building that Lydia Moss Bradley built!
http://www.prairienet.org/~ehopkins/

 

[DoubleJayAlum]

Are you hoping for a trough in your basement :-o

Personally, I think the worst thing they've ever done is remove troughs from arenas. Men hardly ever had to wait in line when nature called. Now, they remove the troughs and replace them with only a couple of urinals and you end up waiting forever.....

 

[ph]

What if someone filed a lawsuit declaring the Fieldhouse a HISTORIC Building,
and got legislation passed that stops it from being torn down...
I know this sounds silly, but it has happened before....
It almost happened on one other building that Lydia Moss Bradley built!
http://www.prairienet.org/~ehopkins/

I would hope not, The fieldhouse is more historic due to the events/teams that played in it, And it served it's purpose well. It is not an historic model of quality architecture or building construction that usually defines historic buildings.

 

[ghunt]

Troughs--I love it ;-) I had to explain them to my wife once and she about filpped. Actually, selling pieces of structures is common enough through the years--Busch, parts of Rockne after the remodel, Boston Garden, etc. A quarter of the seats are theater, I'd like to say capacity was at 6,700, so that makes about 1,675 theater seats. At the Busch price of $300 a pair, that would be about $251,100. Throwin other stuff and the idea of various things mounted on a plaque, and that could rake in some dollars.

Or, they could have gut-rehabbed the shell, added on to it, and maybe saved money that way? I really don't know on that, but my feelings are that I hate to see something that surpases Hinkle Fieldhouse in terms of experiences, memories, and overall tradition go down in the crumple of dust and rubble. Actually, give me two seats, maybe a piece a bleacher, and a slab of the floor and my BU shrine would be made ;-) It would make a great bar ;-)

 

[Murph]

What about that floor......Makes me drool just thinking about making a nice top for my bar out of that wood.