“Preservation shouldn’t depend on who shows up at the last minute,” said a local advocate.
Historical preservationists are scrambling as numerous properties in the Roanoke Valley face demolition or have already been razed.
North Cross School tore down a farmhouse in January on its property that dated to the early 1800s.
A pre-Civil War house on North Market Street in Salem — owned by Roanoke College — is slated for demolition with bulldozers on site. A late appeal has bought the home at least another few weeks…