Photo provided by REBECCA FORD This 300-square-foot Italian mosaic tile mural was the focal point of the Bellemont Hotel’s Pan American Suite’s private pool. The Airline Highway motel is being demolished; a campaign is under way to salvage this mural.
All Rebecca Ford needs is $40,000.
Or at least, thereabouts, she says. Ford is waging an 11th-hour campaign to save a mosaic tile mural near the private swimming pool in what was the Bellemont’s prestigious Pan American Suite, the crown jewel among the Airline Highway motor hotel’s more than 250 rooms.
The mural, Pan American Suite, Great Hall and all the rest of the sprawling 18-acre landmark hotel complex is being demolished. Ford would like to rescue the mural and place it in a safe spot free from vandals.
The mural covers about 300 square feet and is made from Italian tiles with bold, playful images of a sun, shellfish and other objects.
Patrick Jeansonne, of Busted Knuckle Build Services, is holding off his demolition crews a few more days, more as a favor to Ford in her effort to save the mural.
Meanwhile, Ford is drumming up as much awareness as she can muster in hopes a fairy godmother may step forward.
“It’s basically word-of-mouth,” Ford said of her campaign. “And we need word-of-mouth pretty quickly to save that wall.”
Her efforts haven’t gone unnoticed.
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