[Calclg-l] search for historic buildings or structures needing to be moved

[Wendy Ward]

Lee
Hello from Napa Valley California. My name is Wendy Ward and I am a 
Cultural Heritage Commissioner for the City of Napa.
 From the list server it appears that someone referred Mr. Phil Joy as a 
historic house mover in Northern California. That indeed is true as he 
will be attempting to move, for the second time (that in itself is a 
story!) a 130 year old home from Napa to Benecia. The process is 
perhaps more interesting than the home itself, a conservative looking, 
run down Victorian home.
The process involves putting the home up on support rails, towing it 
(criss-crossing lanes multiple times to avoid stop lights, medians and 
power lines) by truck through town and over a bridge approximately 1 
mile to a river launch. There it will be slid it down a river bank on 
aluminum rails to an awaiting barge where it begins a barge journey 
down river to  small historic community called Benecia. Once there the 
process begins again to get it up to the historic downtown 
neighborhood.
I have a lot more background information if you are interested but you 
will have to act quickly as Phil wants to complete this soon. (he first 
tried sevceral weeks ago and was turned away due to permit problems.)
Do take a look at the youtube clip as it will be similar but of a 
smaller home. The house on youtube is a very large, ornate home he also 
moved from Napa not long ago.
Please do give me call soon so we might capture this event best.
Kind regards,
Wendy Ward
Cultural Heritage Commissioner
City of Napa
707 258-9286
On Nov 29, 2007, at 5:21 PM, Bill Tuikka wrote:

>  check out www.youtube.com  
> put in "Phil Joy" in the search and you will see a recent house move 
> from Napa to Benicia by barge. 
>  
> Bill Tuikka, AICP
> Planning Division
> Development Services Department
> City of Vallejo
> 707.648.5391
>
>
> >>> "Nelson, Marie" <MNELSON at parks.ca.gov> 11/29/2007 9:49 AM >>>
> Passing this along.
> Marie Nelson
> Local Government Unit - Survey Coordinator
> Office of Historic Preservation
> mnelson at parks.ca.gov
> 916-653-9514
>  
>  
>  
> Historic Preservation Office,
>
> My name is Lee Reading and I'm a researcher with Windfall Films in the 
> UK.  We produce the US television show MEGA MOVES for the National 
> Geographic and the Discovery channels 
>  (http://www.windfallfilms.com/html/productions/monstermoves.htm).
>
> Our programmes aim to film the entire journey of whole structures 
> being moved from one location to another, hopefully giving an audience 
> something they haven't seen before.  I'm currently looking for 
> historic buildings that are due for relocation; be they stone 
> cottages, farm houses, train depots, monuments, wooden barns or even 
> giant machinery.  As long as they have interesting back stories, 
> history, character and an interesting move route, I'd be interested in 
> putting them forward for filming.  We'd very much like to work with 
> the each state's Historic Preservation Office should they be involved 
> in any projects, or know of any projects, over the next month or two. 
>  These films should provide excellent publicity to all those involved, 
> as well as the building themselves.
>
> If you have anything in the pipeline or know of a project coming up, 
> wherever it maybe, feel free to send me an email, fax me or drop me a 
> line and I shall investigate further.  Any information or pictures you 
> have would be extremely useful to the third season of Mega Moves.
>
> Hope to hear from you soon
>
> Kindest Regards,
>
> Lee
>
> Lee Reading
> Researcher/ Coordinator UK
> Windfall Films
>
> T: +44 (0)207 251 7656
> F: +44 (0)207 253 8468
> lee at windfallfilms.com
>
> 1 Underwood Row, London, UK N1 7LZ
> www.windfallfilms.com
>  
>  
>  
>  _______________________________________________
> Calclg-l mailing list
> Calclg-l at ohp.parks.ca.gov
> http://lists.cwo.com/mailman/listinfo/calclg-l
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: text/enriched
Size: 6706 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.cwo.com/pipermail/calclg-l/attachments/20071209/32aa641d/attachment.bin