A Slice of Mauritania

In Lower Mid-City.

Off in the distance, across the 30-acre site, you can see the S.W. Green Mansion up on wheels at the far left.  On the right, the house Robert Rogers once rented on Palmyra is now an island - complete with the random palm tree that crews left intact for some reason.

Besides Rogers' place, there are only two other houses to be moved - the gray house with brown roof way off in the distance and the purple shotgun just beyond it.

The pump house, with its orange clay tile roof, will also seemingly stay.  If you zoom in, the large Pan-Am building will stay as well - it's being renovated right now, and the numerous sunshades around the outside of the building that make its appearance have largely been removed.

Grim

The VA Footprint looks like the aftermath of some World War I battle.  Just remember - people still live here.

The seagreen house above, Gaynell's house, appears to be in the process of getting moved off the site.

The ruins of the gray house at 214 S. Tonti, which had a fantastic facade, lie at the head of a lake that continues to form due to rain and a bubbling spring that appears to be coming from a broken water pipe in the street nearby.

Here's a view of the space where Wally Thurman's house once stood.  Off on the right, the gray house, a camelback, is still occupied.

Back on S. Galvez, Ruth Sanderson's house from Palmyra, the last house on its entire city block square, awaits final extraction from the site.  Far off in the distance, you can see the houses on the mud path version of S. Rocheblave Street.

Stark - But Still Green

The S.W. Green Mansion at 219 S. Miro recently lost the overgrown juniper trees that long stood sentinel outside its front entrance. 

The grounds of the mansion, like the entire VA Footprint site around it, has grown increasingly bleak as of late.  And it's not simply because it's November.

The 17-room home of S.W. Green is slated to be moved, from everything I have heard.  It's also my understanding, from talking with a variety of sources, that the home will be moved to a series of vacant lots at Banks and S. Rocheblave - immediately outside of the VA Hospital Footprint.