The Swampscott Massachusetts Historical Commission will hold a public hearing on plans to demolish President Calvin Coolidge’s oceanfront mansion for re-development, according to The Salem News.
The mansion, known as White Court, was Coolidge’s summer White House in 1925 and later served as the campus for Marian Court College until its closing in 2015 after poor enrollment and financial troubles.
The building has been deemed by the local historical commission as historically significant, but the mansion’s existence is in jeopardy as the city and developers move forward in the process of demolition with a public hearing to be held Tuesday night.
In December, a developing company bought the property from the Catholic women’s organization, Sisters of Mercy of the Americas Northeast Community Inc., for $2.75 million and hope to construct a condominium building similar to the Coolidge mansion currently on site.
The original plans for the property included the preservation of the building, expanding it to include two new three-story wings but changed their plans after determining the building “not sound enough to renovate.”
