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THE PALM BEACH POST • FRIDAY, AUGUST 12,2011 3B
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RICHARD GRAULICH /Staff Photographer
Tequesta Councilman Jim Humpage says the village needs a decision on the former train
depot in the next few months. The site is slated to be turned into a passive park.
Interest in form dep
p its demolition
The village held a special council
Three groups have said they meeting Thursday to listen to restora-
want to move or restore it. tion plans.
Humpage said the Loxahatchee
Guild appeared most interested in
saving the building from demolition.
By KEVIN D. THOMPSON No one from the guild was available
Palm Beads Post Staff Writer for comment.
Plans to demolish a former depot Humpage said the village would
for Henry Flagler's railroad remain need a final decision on the build -
on hold as the three parties that have ing, once a stop on Flagler's famous
expressed interest in moving and railroad to Key West, in the next few
preserving the 97- year -old structure months.
lay out their plans for saving it. "We just can't let it sit there,"
"Most of my councilmen would like Humpage said. "It's a hazard to the
to see this thing preserved," Council- public."
man Jim Humpage said. "The council The building's doors and windows
is trying to help these people." are broken and the walls are dented.
The Loxahatchee Guild, the town The structure. also has been battered
of Jupiter and Yesteryear Village at by termites and the weather over the
the South Florida Fairgrounds have years.
said they would be interested restor- Village Manager Mike Couzzo
ing and possibly moving the building, once called the property an "eye-
Humpage said. sore."
Moving the wooden structure, In November, the village paid
built in 1914, could cost up to $150,000, $225,000 for the depot and the 2 -acre
Humpage said. parcel on which it sits. It plans to turn
"It's not necessarily the restoration the property into a public park with
that is prohibitive," he said. "It's the landscaping, picnic tables and a cov-
moving or the relocation that's the ered gazebo.
problem." p kevin_thompson @pbpost.com