If the city were able to hire, say, Reclaim Detroit or Architectural Salvage Warehouse to deconstruct and/or sell these items and take a chunk of the profits, I think that'd be awesome. Take the money made from selling the items and put it back to deconstruct more homes, which generates more items to sell, which means more dilapidated/dangerous homes removed. Yay all around!

Not to mention, it means keeping some of the intact portions of these historical homes in use, keeping the beautiful craftsmanship and the amazing quality of some of these works out there... makes me happy!