Save Boissiere House

“The house was built in a cocoa economy, its roots further recessed in time. To retrofit would inevitably change the essential character and reasons for preservation in the first place and probably contravene essential design and structural elements to do with a preservation order, perhaps the most obvious being that a library/museum must incorporate air conditioning and temperature controlled spaces, involving the sealing up of vents, windows, and other original, essential natural air conditioning or temperature maintenance factors, that were and still are part of the form and function of the structure….” [Read original article]