Former Se Texan Hopes To Save Historic Beaumont House

For more than 111 years, the Caroline Gilbert Hinchee House has added splendor to its Park Street neighborhood, withstood decline and beat back monstrous storms with strong bones that, in time, grew so weak that the city now wants to end its pain in violent, undignified demolition. A red tag on its doorstep is the invitation to its death. After other heroic, yet quixotic attempts to grab back the Queen Anne-styled architectural rarity from the claws of a frontloader, a former Beaumont resident who once delivered newspapers to the hitching posts at 1814 Park St.