- Hugo Hotel
The Hugo Hotel is an abandoned
tenement building located atSan Francisco 'sSouth of Market district. The hotel is noted for itsdefenestration of furniture, meaning throwing objects out of windows halfway, which was created in1997 by Brian Goggin with a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts [http://www.cnn.com/US/9703/17/fringe/flying.furniture/index.html Furniture gallery in the sky] ] [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/10/REG0DL1JQG1.DTL Artwork for sale, and so is building / Defenestration site still vacant after over 16 years] ]This building has also been considered by the
City and County of San Francisco to be taken over byeminent domain and demolished for affordable housing. [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/27/BAFEUMLTH.DTL Sixth Street keeps trying to make a comeback] ] [http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2008/01/and_now_back_to_the_hugo_hotel_and_eminent_domain_on_si.html And Now Back To The Hugo Hotel (And Eminent Domain On Sixth)] ] [http://www.examiner.com/a-1158371~Historic_hotel_may_be_claimed_by_eminent_domain.html City may use eminent domain to claim historic hotel for development project] ] [http://www.sfgov.org/site/sfra_page.asp?id=73480 San Francisco Redevelopment Agency] ]References
External links
* [http://www.defenestration.org/ Official Website]
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