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Catering Our food. Your Venue. Celebrate and have your event with us! English Tea Room and Eatery 734 East Rutland St
(In Historic Downtown Covington)
985-898-3988 englishtearoom.com
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November 2021 • Southern Jewish Life
575 and the downtown was filled with Jewish names on buildings. The Great Depression depressed the building’s occupancy rate. The building became a drain on the family’s finances, and the family lost the building. It continued on as an office building, but suburban development in the 1960s and 1970s led to downtown’s decline and it became vacant. In 1979 the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places. In 2006 there was a proposal to develop the building into a hotel, but it fell through during a change of city leadership. In 2010, the National Trust for Historic Preservation placed it on its list of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places. In 2013, a volunteer group called the Threefoot Preservation Society started meeting under the leadership of Amos Jones to try and stabilize the building in hopes it might attract a developer. At the time, there were “weeds, grass, debris of all kinds” on both sides of the building. Every month they would do basic restoration and preservation work. Once renovations were underway for the hotel, Campbell said it was a challenge. “You have an old building that has sat vacant for 30 years.” They retained as much of the historical details as possible and created “a showpiece.” He added, “this has been a long time coming, and to see it in its final stage is incredible.” Registration Desk