Preservation: The Little Railroad that Might
Categories: Preservation: You Can Help
By: Mark Boardman 02/01/2008
Destroying to Preserve?
Usually, when we talk about tearing down a building, it's bad news. But here's the exception to the rule.
In December, director Francis Ford Coppola put the wrecking ball to a 1970s concrete barrel cellar on his Napa Valley, California, estate. The structure had blocked roadside views of the 19th-century mansion built by Gustav Niebaum, who founded the Inglenook Winery in 1880. Coppola now calls it the Rubicon Estate Winery.
Coppola's plans for the empty space? He'll plant an acre of Cabernet Sauvignon grapes. "I think Gustav Niebaum would approve." So do we.
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