Thursday, September 26, 2019
Following Up
Two weeks ago, Gossips told about the 18th-century Georgian house, known as the Galloway Mansion, that was being moved from Easton, Maryland, to Queenstown, Maryland. The move involved a journey of fifty miles through the Chesapeake Bay.
Tonight, a reader alerted me to a BBC News video showing the house on a barge being pushed along by a tugboat: "Aerials of historic home being moved by boat."
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For lack of detail ... still want to know who is financing this move or the importance of this house. Is this just coincidental that its called the (Eric?) Galloway Mansion. The fact that a house can be moved is uninteresting.
ReplyDeleteGo to the website, which I have linked to before, and you can learn all about it: eastonhousemove.com. And, yes, it is coincidental that the house is called the Galloway Mansion.
DeleteIt's interesting as a comparison because here a house was "moved" by "disassembling" it and reassembling it at another location. In reality a facsimile was constructed using some of the salvaged parts which is not the same thing. Anyone who worked on old houses would know that it is not really possible to take apart a very old brick house and reassemble it somewhere else exactly as it was, as many of the materials will be damaged and/or rendered unusable by the demolition. For someone concerned with historic preservation and setting precedents for the future, this is disconcerting.
DeleteThis website ... eastonhousemove.com ... says nothing about the cost of this move. Refers to a well healed family wanting a place to call home.
DeleteWish some enterprising philanthropist would use this as an example and move the two Gothic Revival houses slated for demolition on Fairview Avenue.
ReplyDeleteThinking the same thing. Hope that philanthropist is reading right now!
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