The Cloister Apartments on Chestnut Street is losing a small bit of its century old charm this week as workers remove its old slate roof in favor of a new asphalt one. Shattered shingles were tossed off the three story building’s roof creating a dust cloud and a startling racket on the sidewalk below.
Even as the remaining slate was being discarded, workers, seen below, were installing the new asphalt shingles. The Phoenix Hill icon was originally the Ursuline Convent of the Immaculate Conception.
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Branden founded Broken Sidewalk in 2008 while practicing architecture in Louisville. He continued the site for seven years while living in New York City, returning to Louisville in 2016. Branden is a graduate of the College of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis, and has covered architecture, design, and urbanism for The Architect's Newspaper, Designers & Books, Inhabitat, and the American Institute of Architects.
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Terrible news. Anyone who had a part in this should be ashamed of themselves. They have no excuse.