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SARATOGA WRITTEN BY SAMANTHA BOSSHART, SARATOGA SPRINGS PRESERVATION FOUNDATION | PHOTOS PROVIDED
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ho owns those two houses? Are they for sale? How come the owners don’t do anything to preserve them? These are questions that I asked when I moved to Saratoga Springs in 2006 and walked by 65 & 69 Phila Street for the first time. These were the same questions that neighbors were regularly asked by passersby. Each time, hoping that one of the interested people would purchase the buildings and save them.
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When I joined the Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation in 2008, I learned that these two properties had been on the Foundation’s endangered list since its inception in 1998. After learning about the significance of “The Gut” neighborhood, the history of these two buildings, and the reasons for their deteriorated condition – willful intentional neglect, I knew that they must be preserved!
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