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Spain House
Tupelo's Historic Preservation Commission met today at 5 p.m. to consider Calvary Baptist Church's request for a permit to demolish the historic Spain House on Main Street.
The church has attempted unsuccessfully to sell or give the house away since buying it as part of a multi-lot purchase in 2006, saying revamping it for church use would be prohibitively expensive.
Calvary would like to have the property for other church-related development, but the commission has opposed demolition of the century-old building.
Parties involved have been working the last several weeks to find a solution involving the city, but there's been no final word on those negotiations.
Read more in Tuesday's NEMS Daily Journal newspaper.
If the Historic Commission and the city cannot come to some solution agreeable with the church, then perhaps the only solution is to let it rot where it stands. Then the city will come in and condemn it and order it's demolition.
Emily says the discussion continues on alternatives for the Spain House.