The D.M. Rutherford Family Conservatory has been demolished.

After months of back and forth between the University of Guelph and the City of Guelph and heritage advocates, the structure was demolished over the past week.

Construction fencing with black landscape fabric surrounds the site where the conservatory had been located on campus.

The city initially wanted to grant the building heritage designation after it was found that the structure met eight out of nine criteria set by the Ontario Herit…