The plan is in the works to move the historic house Everglades icon Marjory Stoneman Douglas - but the question is where.
SUBHED
Coconut Grove is a comfortable cabin where the late Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Everglades guards and an American icon, lived for most of her life this eyesore.
A pile of cracked cedar shingles sit near the front steps. A blue tarpaulin roof iris torn exposing the tar paper. Running water stains from a vaulted ceiling down the wall behind a large interior. Douglas Spain antique desk and most of the furniture missing.
Bungalow in 1926 has fallen into such sorry shape that the state has quietly moved to strip management from Sallye Jude, a prominent preservationist Miami. The plan - to change the house and lot adjacent to the museum compound - ran afoul of neighbors.
Eva Armstrong, director of Florida Division of State Lands, said his office is committed to preserving the house's most famous environmental Florida, who died in 1998 at the age of 108 - just not in place to build in southern Douglas Grove.
"That's not right to treat this historic property in this way," said Armstrong.
"We want to put it into a place where it will be appreciated the way we want this dwelling Mrs. Douglas' which must be respected."
Armstrong said the long, cruel, seems unresolvable feud - involving Jude, neighbors and environmental groups to establish Douglas - have all but forced a transplant from a house where Douglas wrote The Everglades: River of Grass, a book in 1947 that convinced the state that the swamp is called Everglades National Park is worth making.
POSSIBLE SITES
One possibility is the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden - although Armstrong said demand for the possibility of U.S. $ 2 million perpetual appears too steep.
Another, which appeared only in recent weeks, is in a city park, probably in rural South Miami-Dade.
"This is very unfortunate," said Armstrong. "It's always better to leave the historic structure where it is, but in this case does not seem defensible."
Moving cottage, situated in the shade of a mahogany tree from the narrow road winding filled with expensive homes, have been reluctant to accept support.
"I stood at the front door one day Marjory and I think it is no longer love Marjory environment," said Judah, who first floated the idea of Fairchild last year.
Juanita Greene, conservation chairman of Friends of the Everglades, Douglas environmental groups, have mixed feelings.
He would prefer a house to live in their natural habitat, but also wanted a place where people can appreciate Douglas' legacy - at no cost to do this, he problem with Fairchild.
"Why do we have to get rid of public property such as Marjory Stoneman Douglas' house and give it to private entities?" He said.
DISPUTE rages
Moves that may not end up fighting.
Neighbors and members of the Friends of the Everglades blamed the long years in limbo homes in both St. Jude, president of the Land Trust of Dade County, a nonprofit that has mastered a state property under lease since 1999, and the land manager in Tallahassee for lax oversight.
John Freud, a lawyer who lived next door to Douglas and has been the most persistent environmental Jude critic, declined to discuss the dispute.
But in a series of e-mails to the state Deparment of Environmental Regulation since 2005, he lambasted the state to "turn a deaf ear and blind eye to the situation here" and repeatedly pressed for a cease Jude control.
For years, neighbors have complained about poor landscaping, poor maintenance and infestations of bees and rats.
Judas accused them of refusing to submit financial forms or a meeting ordered by the state and various other trangressions.
Especially, they are suspicious of confidence never left the original proposal to build a museum and two-story building with offices and accommodation for researchers in the property purchased in 1993 - said the plan threatens the quiet neighborhood in the bag character.
Frustration
Last year, Freud wrote that Judas - who received the Florida Heritage Award for decades of conservation efforts, from savings in the Old Capitol in Tallahassee to restore the River Inn, Miami - "want nothing more than to exploit Marjory's icon stature for his own personal gain and so-called reputation for historic preservation. "
Members of The Friends of the Everglades is less harsh, but equally frustrating.
Greene, a friend of Douglas, said he was very angry with the state house to let disputes fester and worsen.
In 2003, the group proposed to take over and come up with a plan that will not disturb neighbors.
"We never heard anything back," said Greene.
David Reiner, a Miami lawyer who is president of the group, said he drafted a lawsuit against the state and the confidence to ignore the structure and fails to open the historic site to the public.
Personality conflicts make mediation efforts over the years in vain, he said. "We really have a place. It's very bitter."
Jude said he found the "inflammatory" allegations "extremely disturbing."
But he defended his efforts on behalf of a woman who was considered a friend, said Douglas had personally requested a small museum. Trust has promised only limited access - no more than 20 visitors per day, four days a week, he said.
Controversy, he said, only undermine the efforts of fund raising that could accelerate the work.
The condition of the house, he called the critics do not understand.
"The people know nothing about what they were talking about," he said. "They just talk. Maybe they need to get some facts."
The house suffered $ 25,000 facelift in 2001, including entered steel beam to prop up sagging floors, replacing rotten wood and make other improvements. Douglas furniture, he said, had been transferred to an air-conditioned storage for protection until the house finally opened to visitors.
Jude admits that hurricanes Katrina and Wilma damaged roof, but said the trust took off for repairs because of the possibility of moving.
"When you're moving house, you do not install a new roof on it," he said. "After that the patch on the roof, the house was as sound as ever."
Matkov Thomas, a Miami lawyer who Vice President of the land trust, echoing St. Jude, said the conflict with its neighbors has been hamstrung businesses and homes, until the storm last year, are in better condition than when Douglas lived in it.
Armstrong, director of state land, said the trust had made serious efforts, but failed to keep this place in the end.
"I believe the management of very old, frail frankly historic structure more than they bargained for," said Armstrong.
Rent trust will be stopped immediately, said DEP spokeswoman Sarah Williams.
When and where home may be grafted remain unclear - such as moving costs and improve it.
Which can easily run into hundreds of thousands and given Grove narrow streets, need to cut the cabin and moved in pieces.
"I've heard estimates that you can not move unless you disassembled it," said board chairman Bruce Greer Fairchild. "I've heard can only be moved by helicopter. I've heard it should be moved on a barge."
PIECE OF HISTORY
Greer said he agreed to consider a request from Jude to accept the house for Fairchild because it is an important part of history at risk, which can be a valuable educational tool for children.
He said he did not know any $ 2 million endowment and is expected to request the park must raise funds to support it. But Greer said he did not want to Fairchild to be drawn into a long dispute.
"As long as everyone happy and we can be a solution, fine," he said. "If not, count me out."
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SUBHED
Coconut Grove is a comfortable cabin where the late Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Everglades guards and an American icon, lived for most of her life this eyesore.
A pile of cracked cedar shingles sit near the front steps. A blue tarpaulin roof iris torn exposing the tar paper. Running water stains from a vaulted ceiling down the wall behind a large interior. Douglas Spain antique desk and most of the furniture missing.
Bungalow in 1926 has fallen into such sorry shape that the state has quietly moved to strip management from Sallye Jude, a prominent preservationist Miami. The plan - to change the house and lot adjacent to the museum compound - ran afoul of neighbors.
Eva Armstrong, director of Florida Division of State Lands, said his office is committed to preserving the house's most famous environmental Florida, who died in 1998 at the age of 108 - just not in place to build in southern Douglas Grove.
"That's not right to treat this historic property in this way," said Armstrong.
"We want to put it into a place where it will be appreciated the way we want this dwelling Mrs. Douglas' which must be respected."
Armstrong said the long, cruel, seems unresolvable feud - involving Jude, neighbors and environmental groups to establish Douglas - have all but forced a transplant from a house where Douglas wrote The Everglades: River of Grass, a book in 1947 that convinced the state that the swamp is called Everglades National Park is worth making.
POSSIBLE SITES
One possibility is the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden - although Armstrong said demand for the possibility of U.S. $ 2 million perpetual appears too steep.
Another, which appeared only in recent weeks, is in a city park, probably in rural South Miami-Dade.
"This is very unfortunate," said Armstrong. "It's always better to leave the historic structure where it is, but in this case does not seem defensible."
Moving cottage, situated in the shade of a mahogany tree from the narrow road winding filled with expensive homes, have been reluctant to accept support.
"I stood at the front door one day Marjory and I think it is no longer love Marjory environment," said Judah, who first floated the idea of Fairchild last year.
Juanita Greene, conservation chairman of Friends of the Everglades, Douglas environmental groups, have mixed feelings.
He would prefer a house to live in their natural habitat, but also wanted a place where people can appreciate Douglas' legacy - at no cost to do this, he problem with Fairchild.
"Why do we have to get rid of public property such as Marjory Stoneman Douglas' house and give it to private entities?" He said.
DISPUTE rages
Moves that may not end up fighting.
Neighbors and members of the Friends of the Everglades blamed the long years in limbo homes in both St. Jude, president of the Land Trust of Dade County, a nonprofit that has mastered a state property under lease since 1999, and the land manager in Tallahassee for lax oversight.
John Freud, a lawyer who lived next door to Douglas and has been the most persistent environmental Jude critic, declined to discuss the dispute.
But in a series of e-mails to the state Deparment of Environmental Regulation since 2005, he lambasted the state to "turn a deaf ear and blind eye to the situation here" and repeatedly pressed for a cease Jude control.
For years, neighbors have complained about poor landscaping, poor maintenance and infestations of bees and rats.
Judas accused them of refusing to submit financial forms or a meeting ordered by the state and various other trangressions.
Especially, they are suspicious of confidence never left the original proposal to build a museum and two-story building with offices and accommodation for researchers in the property purchased in 1993 - said the plan threatens the quiet neighborhood in the bag character.
Frustration
Last year, Freud wrote that Judas - who received the Florida Heritage Award for decades of conservation efforts, from savings in the Old Capitol in Tallahassee to restore the River Inn, Miami - "want nothing more than to exploit Marjory's icon stature for his own personal gain and so-called reputation for historic preservation. "
Members of The Friends of the Everglades is less harsh, but equally frustrating.
Greene, a friend of Douglas, said he was very angry with the state house to let disputes fester and worsen.
In 2003, the group proposed to take over and come up with a plan that will not disturb neighbors.
"We never heard anything back," said Greene.
David Reiner, a Miami lawyer who is president of the group, said he drafted a lawsuit against the state and the confidence to ignore the structure and fails to open the historic site to the public.
Personality conflicts make mediation efforts over the years in vain, he said. "We really have a place. It's very bitter."
Jude said he found the "inflammatory" allegations "extremely disturbing."
But he defended his efforts on behalf of a woman who was considered a friend, said Douglas had personally requested a small museum. Trust has promised only limited access - no more than 20 visitors per day, four days a week, he said.
Controversy, he said, only undermine the efforts of fund raising that could accelerate the work.
The condition of the house, he called the critics do not understand.
"The people know nothing about what they were talking about," he said. "They just talk. Maybe they need to get some facts."
The house suffered $ 25,000 facelift in 2001, including entered steel beam to prop up sagging floors, replacing rotten wood and make other improvements. Douglas furniture, he said, had been transferred to an air-conditioned storage for protection until the house finally opened to visitors.
Jude admits that hurricanes Katrina and Wilma damaged roof, but said the trust took off for repairs because of the possibility of moving.
"When you're moving house, you do not install a new roof on it," he said. "After that the patch on the roof, the house was as sound as ever."
Matkov Thomas, a Miami lawyer who Vice President of the land trust, echoing St. Jude, said the conflict with its neighbors has been hamstrung businesses and homes, until the storm last year, are in better condition than when Douglas lived in it.
Armstrong, director of state land, said the trust had made serious efforts, but failed to keep this place in the end.
"I believe the management of very old, frail frankly historic structure more than they bargained for," said Armstrong.
Rent trust will be stopped immediately, said DEP spokeswoman Sarah Williams.
When and where home may be grafted remain unclear - such as moving costs and improve it.
Which can easily run into hundreds of thousands and given Grove narrow streets, need to cut the cabin and moved in pieces.
"I've heard estimates that you can not move unless you disassembled it," said board chairman Bruce Greer Fairchild. "I've heard can only be moved by helicopter. I've heard it should be moved on a barge."
PIECE OF HISTORY
Greer said he agreed to consider a request from Jude to accept the house for Fairchild because it is an important part of history at risk, which can be a valuable educational tool for children.
He said he did not know any $ 2 million endowment and is expected to request the park must raise funds to support it. But Greer said he did not want to Fairchild to be drawn into a long dispute.
"As long as everyone happy and we can be a solution, fine," he said. "If not, count me out."
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