Fearing 'demolition by neglect,' city heritage panel votes to save Pearson's 1950s home

Despite advice from heritage experts and an engineering firm that a house once inhabited by Lester Pearson isn’t worth saving, the city’s committee on heritage buildings wants city council to refuse to allow it to be demolished.
The former duplex on Cobourg Street in Sandy Hill is now officially the High Commission of Uganda, though a detailed engineering assessment found that it’s a wreck. The clay soil it sits in has dried out and settled, so the foundation and walls have cra