The On STJ guys posted today about Hercules rebuilding and in the picture you can see that stone building that has been incomplete for years...anybody know the story there?
You can see it on the left here:
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
- Mark Twain
That is Penns building. That is where you rent their cars and they also store their industrial trucks there. I've rented from them before. Inside the lobby there are drawings of what they originally conceived of for the space--a mix of their rental car business and shops on the lower, and a second level of apartments. Why it did not happen, I have no idea.
It has looked that way since I started visiting STJ in 2003. I can think of things on St. John that look worse!
It's like looking in your soup and finding a whole different alphabet.
whenever we drive past that unfinished building, we crack a joke about the Unfinished Church in St Georges, Bermuda.
Our guidebook from our first trip to Bermuda said it was never completed due to a schism. that's a word we don't use often enough, so whenever we drive past what I just learned to be the Penn's Building, we say "schism".