Norway’s “Gingerbread House” deserves to be restored. Because I am a person known to take an interest in Norway’s historic buildings, folks are constantly asking me, “What’s going to happen to the Gingerbread House?”

Guests from out of town want to, literally, get out of the car and marvel at the architectural details.

Some say that it is too far gone. That was said about the house we bought downtown over 15 years ago, but we could see that it was worth saving, and we brought it back.

Since Norway rightly boasts of its historic downtown district, The Walking Tour Guide and the large photos of the old buildings that delighted so many this summer, hanging in a storefront window, I feel that I am not alone in expressing a wish to save this fascinating building. I was on the team that put together these guides and photos which link our past to the present. And one by one, the old buildings are being restored.

It takes will and imagination to restore an iconic old building. Surely the “Gingerbread House” deserves to be restored. I hope that it will not be Norway’s equivalent of the destruction of Portland’s Union Station. Count me in as a grant writer and member of the “Gingerbread House Restoration Committee.” I hope the Sun Journal’s acquisition of this building proves to be a positive step toward restoration.

Patricia Shearman, Norway