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May 23, 2006
Staying Stong
The Stong Building, a century-old hotel next door to the Chattanooga Choo-Choo – and the structure named the city’s second-most imperiled by The Pulse last July – has been saved from demolition. Probably.
Joe Sliger of Eastman Construction purchased the Stong Building for $171,000 last week, according to reports in the Times Free Press and Chattanoogan.com. “I’ve always wanted that building,” Sliger told the TFP’s Herman Wang. We hope so: the top two floors of the three-story building are partially collapsed, and a rehabilitation plan is due to the city by May 30 to avert the wrecking ball.
The Stong Building, a thin wedge at the corner of Market and 14th Streets, first arrived on the city landscape as the Terminal Hotel, owned and operated by Chester Davis, a former porter at the Terminal Station (now the Choo-Choo) who made his capital on tips. The building stayed in the family even after the hotel closed in 1930. “My grandfather, he put a lot of work into the building, and over the years we kind of got away from doing what we should have done to keep the building running,” said Darrell D. Davis, one of 11 family co-owners. That might be an understatement: Neeld Messler, a local developer, told The Pulse last summer that the building’s deterioration was mostly due to roof leaks. “And it takes nothing more than going to ACE Hardware and getting some roof tar,” Messler said.
Note to Joe Sliger: Go to ACE Hardware. Get some roof tar.
BlogBeats | By pulseblogger | 09:42 AM
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