The Street That Almost Wasn’t Saved

Beverley St is now one of the best-preserved Victorian main streets in America. In 1965, the city knocked down 32 historic buildings a block away, and the fight that followed made downtown what it is

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Stand at the corner of Beverley and Augusta streets and turn slowly in a circle. The Beaux-Arts limestone of National Valley Bank, modeled on a Roman triumphal arch. The …