Though it doesn’t look like all that much now, Quinn Chapel has stood in the Carondelet neighborhood for 160 years. Today, however, the city will begin the process of tearing it down. That’s even though several neighbors say they’re interested in buying the dilapidated structure and preserving it in some way.
There’s just one problem. Despite Quinn’s sorry state, its current owner doesn’t seem interested in selling.
“There’s been a number of people in the community who have approached [the owner],” says Matthew Goodleaf, who lives just a block away and who, along with his wife, is actively working to preserve a different historic building in the neighborhood. “His cell phone number is not accepting calls from people he doesn’t know. He’s not responding to texts, he’s not responding to emails.”…