During its May 21 meeting, the City of Flagstaff’s Heritage Preservation Commission unanimously voted against accepting a cultural resource study on the building at 19 W. Birch Ave. ahead of its potential demolition.
Located directly to the west of the recent demolition of the buildings at 111 and 123 N. Leroux St., the building was constructed from 1950 to 1951 and previously functioned as Flagstaff City Hall, the fire department and police department among other municipal uses until 1980, when the departments began to move out of the building through the next two decades.
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