If you are interested you should read about the raising of Chicago in which they literally physically lifted the existing buildings/roads/sidewalks etc.
Very interesting on its own, but during this time they moved lots of already built buildings around as well. I remember reading a quote about how commonplace it was and seeing bored shopkeepers standing in the doorway smoking as the building was carried down the street.
>> Traveller David Macrae wrote, “Never a day passed during my stay in the city that I did not meet one or more houses shifting their quarters. One day I met nine. Going out Great Madison Street in the horse cars we had to stop twice to let houses get across.”
bbbergsays
Similarly, in the 1880s, Coney Island’s "Brighton Beach Hotel" was jacked into the air, had a couple dozen parallel railroad lines built underneath it, was lowered onto 112 railroad cars, and then hauled back 600 feet from the encroaching Atlantic Ocean. It took six engines 10 days to do the job.
sonicboisays
Seems like a waste to go through all that effort just to demolish it 50 years later.
deancovert says
Photo courtesy of the Boston Public Library
simmermayor says
Looks kind of like a Parisian building
Francischelo says
They just like moved the entire building?
gamma6464 says
….how
jetfire1115 says
How long did it take?
rrsafety says
Replaced by the Little Building in 1917. https://imgur.com/a/YtY8FEj
_geococcyx_ says
If you are interested you should read about the raising of Chicago in which they literally physically lifted the existing buildings/roads/sidewalks etc.
Very interesting on its own, but during this time they moved lots of already built buildings around as well. I remember reading a quote about how commonplace it was and seeing bored shopkeepers standing in the doorway smoking as the building was carried down the street.
>> Traveller David Macrae wrote, “Never a day passed during my stay in the city that I did not meet one or more houses shifting their quarters. One day I met nine. Going out Great Madison Street in the horse cars we had to stop twice to let houses get across.”
bbberg says
Similarly, in the 1880s, Coney Island’s "Brighton Beach Hotel" was jacked into the air, had a couple dozen parallel railroad lines built underneath it, was lowered onto 112 railroad cars, and then hauled back 600 feet from the encroaching Atlantic Ocean. It took six engines 10 days to do the job.
sonicboi says
Seems like a waste to go through all that effort just to demolish it 50 years later.
Edit: 50*