East Point Block On National List Of Most Endangered Places

The National Trust for Historic Preservation has placed East Point’s civic block on its list of most endangered historic places.

The block includes a condemned auditorium and a city library, which now serves as a storage facility. There’s also a City Hall, which is only partially in use. The National Trust says the properties on East Point’s civic block, which were built in the 1930s, are “suffering a potential fate of demolition by neglect.”

Stasio Rusek, president of the East Point Preservation Alliance, said getting on the list will help save the buildings.

“It really is going to open up outside funding and offer a lot of professional help to the city and to our organization to rehabilitate these buildings back to use to the citizens they were built for,” Rusek said.

The old East Point library was constructed in 1939 as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. The historic block is already on the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation’s list of places in peril.

A spokesman for the city says East Point leaders hope to put together a proposal to renovate the properties.