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Brookline building falls apart

By adamg on Fri, 09/15/2017 - 2:14pm
89 Egmont St. in Brookline

The Brookline Fire Department posted this photo of the front of 68 Egmont St., which has partially collapsed this afternoon.

BU has set up a temporary shelter for its students who live there. BU Today reports some two dozen students were displaced.

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Comments

By Gary C on Fri, 09/15/2017 - 3:22pm.

It's a handsome building on the streetview
https://goo.gl/maps/jtPjikKv88k

By Elmer on Fri, 09/15/2017 - 3:29pm.

IMAGE(https://elmercatdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/1.png)
          ( Google Maps — Street View )
IMAGE(https://elmercatdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2017/09/2.png)
          ( Google Maps — Roof View )

By sixten on Fri, 09/15/2017 - 3:37pm.

Cornices dropped by, not acting very nice. Clashed with a rival street gang, their boulder arch-rival.

By anon on Fri, 09/15/2017 - 3:39pm.

I'm guessing years ago some cheap property owner or contractor removed a parapet wall above the cornice which used to counterweight the cantilevered cornice and then also failed to properly reinforce & waterproof cornice.Without a counterweight or additional reinforcement the cornice was already fighting a losing battle against gravity and water infiltration accelerated the process of structural failure.

The same thing happened at a NU dorm on Opera Place at Huntington Avenue a few years ago. Cheapskate roofing contractors lopping off what they considered ornamental bits of a building without regard to the structural and waterproofing implications.

By Tim Mc. on Fri, 09/15/2017 - 6:07pm.

I was a student there when that happened -- thanks for the (probable) explanation. :-)

By mplo on Fri, 09/15/2017 - 6:08pm.

and to do what they damned well please, which has led to some rather disastrous results.

By Will LaTulippe on Fri, 09/15/2017 - 7:20pm.

American electorate, cough