Historic School in Chester County May be Demolished

Preservationists appear to be on the losing end of the debate in Phoenixville, Chester County about saving an old stone school building. Township supervisors made an exception to their procedures, and granted a demolition permit, to avoid costly, drawn-out litigation.

KYW’s Steve Tawa reports the chairwoman of the Schuylkill Township board of supervisors, Barbara Cohen, says demolishing the building on Whitehorse and Pothouse Roads is ‘cauterizing a wound that had been bleeding for years’:

“I feel it is an unfortunate tragedy.”

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