wasting atlanta, redux

i walked downtown yesterday to see again this old house on ellis street, two blocks east of peachtree --- scheduled to be wasted for surface parking, which is the worst of insults to one of only two houses left downtown --- as late as 1970 there were still four houses on this block alone, but they've fallen one by one --- after this, the rose house on peachtree will be the only one left, and it's in ruinous condition

also to be trashed for surface parking is this 1920s building next door, original headquarters of mack trucking, designed and built with two floors for parking! 

i hope there will be some sort of documentation on the house before it's gone, but that probably won't happen --- it's undergone some obvious alterations to the roof line, probably for a modern attic expansion, but some or all of the historic windows, some perhaps with original sash, remain in place --- differences in window casing suggests two historic building campaigns 

the old union mission will stay, but the loss of the house for surface parking just makes me ill