sentences:  Between the late 1950s and early 1960s, almost 1,000 structures were demolished in the name of “urban renewal” leaving many of the neighborhood's African American residents without a place to call home.In the decades that followed, the West End fell into a state of decay.Many of its once stately homes, including the Betts House, lay vacant for much of the 1970s and 1980s when visions of a bustling Queensgate failed to come to fruition.