The historic significance escapes me...There's a rusted chain-link fence around it. There's a huge puddle in the middle of it. There are dead branches and other effluvium in it... and there's no net. Maybe one of these people once visited and volleyed here for a few minutes?
I wonder if anyone will be interested in buying the house now that they'll likely be forced to restore this historic tennis court? What if they'd rather have a pool?
I really have no problem with the neighborhood banding together to keep intact what is, clearly, a tremendously beautiful and grand example of housing for the well-to-do. I've always been impressed with the grandeur of the architecture employed by Worcester's earlier generations of successful people. It's the abuse of a process designed to address historic preservation that bothers me, wielded instead to prevent a prospective property owner from doing what they wished to do, as well as the queering of a real estate sale merely to maintain a sense of neighborhood feng shui.
It'll be interesting to see just how long 1 Montvale Road remains empty and unsold, and how much further the tennis court will deteriorate before someone decides it's a blight upon the neighborhood... because, in case nobody noticed, it already is.
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