Recently there have been a couple of fires at some of Sioux City's historical buildings. One of those was the Florence Crittenton. You may remeber I psoted about htis building in this post; Sioux City History and Culture by Bicycle Part 110: William Labarth Steele Part 5: Florence Crittenton Center and; Sioux City History and Culture by Bicycle Part 66: Florence Crittenton Center In the previous posts I mentioned it is not known what is going to happen to the building. The Crittenton Center who still owns the building received some stimulus money to turn the building into low rent apartments. Which means the building was going once again to serve the community and help those less fortunate by providing a place to live they can afford.
Now because of a devastating fire that future in uncertain and in question. Here are the news stories about the fire;
Former Florence Crittenton Home damaged by fire
Fire in second historic building called intentional
Fires damages second historic building
Fire officials: Historic building fire suspicious
Protect empty buildings from possible arson
If it is arson I hope the criminals responsible are caught and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Obviously these hoodlums doing this have no pride in this community nor do they understand what kind of historical value they are destroying. As I have more information I will post it as it becomes available.
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