Save “Beit Bu Haydar”!

This beautiful house in Batroun is succumbing. We ask the concerned persons to interfere soon, for this house has a main moral importance for the city.

This stone-walled house built on a rock crouching by the sea of Batroun, aged more than a century, having a balcony tinged with magnificent columns supporting three arcades, town’s symbol, is facing a great danger, it could collapse at any time. First, some stones are today merely hanging on, and the balcony’s two-century-aged pieces of wood consolidating some plate stones which hence were a part of the roof, could fall to the ground, and the balcony’s floor risks to break down at any moment. Then, last time I climbed up to the house, I was afraid receiving a stone on my skull.

Restorations must begin immediately, for fear that a brutal winter tears off the house, so that  we ask the concerned persons to take care of the edifice, and fast, for this construction should a touristic and symbolic monument, as Eiffel Tower in Paris, the Statue of Liberty in New York City, or even Saint Basilius’ cathedral in Moscow.

“Beit Bu Haydar” is a monument which is just standing for  Batroun; its damage would be a great loss. So, save :”Beit Bu Haydar”, Now! 

Joseph Hawly