Casartelli Building

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Casartelli Building
Town	Liverpool
Country	England
Completion date	1760

Coordinates: 53°24′09″N 2°59′08″W / 53.4024, -2.98568 The Casartelli Building, built 1760, was a grade II* listed building at the meeting of Hanover Street and Duke Street, Liverpool, England.

1 History
2 Rebuilding
3 References
4 External links

[edit] History

Its name comes from the Italian Casartelli family, who ran their scientific instrument manufacturing business from the site. It eventually became a wine warehouse before falling into disuse and disrepair.

By October 2000, the condition of the building was so poor that part of it collapsed, prompting the local newspaper, the Liverpool Echo, to launch the Stop the Rot conservation campaign, with the Casartelli Building as its symbol of architectural and cultural neglect in the city centre.^[1] After months of wrangling between the owners of the building, the Liverpool City Council and English Heritage, on plans for renovation and development of the site, it was declared in October 2001 that the building could not be saved due to a rotten wooden beam at the ground floor, which would have required all of the above brickwork to be removed.

[edit] Rebuilding

In January 2002, it was announced that an exact replica of the original building was to be constructed on the site, using as many original materials as possible.^[2] Construction was completed and the building, now restored to its former glory and converted to flats, was officially opened in March 2007.