Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Redefining "Move"

A call half an hour ago from a reader sent Gossips scurrying up to 900 Columbia Street to see what was going on. There is a dumpster in front of the building, window sash has been removed, and the roof is gone. Is this being done in preparation for moving the building?

A call to Daniel Kent, executive director of the Galvan Foundation, revealed that the house is being "disassembled"--taken apart down to its individual bricks, something some might call demolished--to be "reassembled" in the 200 block of Union Street. That's probably not what most people anticipated when Galvan announced its intention to save the historic house by moving it to another location.
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3 comments:

  1. VincentAugust 22, 2013 at 7:51 AM

    Not unlike what happened to the Worth House.

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  2. David MarstonAugust 22, 2013 at 11:57 AM

    Ahh, the sweet masochism of spectating acute cognitive dissonance amongst the panoptic guardians of pathology, really, what better bedfellows than GalVan? RIP 900 Columbia.

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  3. Ruth Moser in Real EstateAugust 22, 2013 at 7:28 PM

    I heard today the beautiful stairway was trashed!

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