Controversy in Mount Lookout is building as the city of Cincinnati parked an excavator in front of a Delta Avenue home in preparations to demolish the building that officials claim is in disrepair.
Owners Pamela and Charles Shrout admit to not having enough money to take care of the house built in the 1860's, but would rather sell it and see it go to a buyer than watch it be destroyed.
Pamela explained, "My hope and prayer is to sell the house to someone who can take it back at one time it was very beautiful when we were here we had perennial gardens it was taken back to period but then again that was 24 years ago."
They moved out of the home at 759 Delta about 12 years ago and have rented it since. Now, a hearing scheduled to decide whether to preserve the home for history sake or to tear it down for neighborhood aesthetics, was postponed on Tuesday for two weeks.
