2024-05-02T09:36:12-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/149948814/rip-bruce-goff-s-bavinger-house-demolished Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2016-06-01T13:13:00-04:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/39/3906ba254488f0c467815fc73c8bbd67?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>the destruction of the Bavinger House is not surprising. Back in 2011, the home appeared to suffer damage in a storm, and when a crew with News 9 attempted to see the house, they were &ldquo;greeted with gunfire.&rdquo; [...] the house remained something of a mystery (it sat on private property, accessed by a rural road) until last July, when PraireMod reported that it had been contacted by Bob Bavinger&rsquo;s son, Boz, who claimed to be putting the property up for sale for the price of $1.5 million.</p></em><br /><br /><p>Our own Donna Sink reported on the 2011 damage to the house:&nbsp;<a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/10981807/goff-s-bavinger-house-collapses" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Goff's Bavinger House collapses</a>. See below for a shot of the demolition scene:</p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/650x/dn/dnyeirziljkanwse.jpg"></p><p>Related on Archinect:</p><ul><li><a title='No guarantees for historic residential architecture in "real-estate limbo"' href="http://archinect.com/news/article/149942153/no-guarantees-for-historic-residential-architecture-in-real-estate-limbo" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">No guarantees for historic residential architecture in "real-estate limbo"</a></li><li><a title="It's easier now to tear down &quot;historic homes&quot; in Beverly Hills than before &ndash;&nbsp;is this progress or folly?" href="http://archinect.com/news/article/146138891/it-s-easier-now-to-tear-down-historic-homes-in-beverly-hills-than-before-is-this-progress-or-folly" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">It's easier now to tear down "historic homes" in Beverly Hills than before &ndash;&nbsp;is this progress or folly?</a></li><li><a title="Has preservation become too conservative and elitist?" href="http://archinect.com/news/article/139956397/has-preservation-become-too-conservative-and-elitist" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Has preservation become too conservative and elitist?</a></li><li><a title="Whatever the architecture, memorializing a structure for its memories" href="http://archinect.com/news/article/144438812/whatever-the-architecture-memorializing-a-structure-for-its-memories" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Whatever the architecture, memorializing a structure for its memories</a></li></ul>