Makes me think of the video for The Scientist by Coldplay. It was filmed with the singer lip-syncing backwards but moving forward, and then reversed.

If only Arthur Dent had thought of doing such a thing.

Anyway, in America, we're always building things and tearing them down 30 years later because they're too old. Homes like this are worth saving. If saving the house is as easy (for us, anyway) as signing a petition, then I don't see why not, really.