how to ruin an historic site

first, take a fine italianate house, c. 1878, home to a florida governor and now part of a national "historic preserve"---built by a river pilot, it is, or rather was, across the road from the st. john's river near jacksonville, and had an expansive view of the river's mouth and "pilot town," now mayport, across the river---the park thought it had some assurance that the view would never be compromised, but then there were a few changes in ownership in the private property between the highway and the river, culminating in the property's acquisition by a total philistine who constructed a three-story boat docking facility precisely in front of the house


























but there's still a fine view from the belvedere if you look the other way