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Plane_Vanilla_3879 t1_izlv0ed wrote

This one needs to go: Mount Pleasant, Philadelphia Mount Pleasant was built between 1762 and 1765 and is recognized as one of the finest examples of Georgian-style architecture. Under its first owner, John Macpherson, a privateer, the estate was a plantation where enslaved African Americans worked.

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rah215 t1_izn5g2g wrote

Why? It’s a building, an inanimate object, showing an architectural style. What did or did not happen in the building really has no bearing on this.

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IamSauerKraut OP t1_iznuqlq wrote

That a building was used by someone who had slaves should not disqualify it from having a marker. Indeed, I would argue the opposite. We need to know these structures and people existed. Ugly or not, it is part of our history. Let's not erase it.

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