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Title Of Article Chaper
Getting a move on ... to save the endangered past
Title Of Journal Book
Technology & conservation
Volume
9
Issue
2
Pages
5-7, 40-41, 47
Collation
b/w ill.
ISSN
0146-1214
Language Of Text
English
Literature Type
Serial
Literature Level
Analytic
Abstract
Discusses guidelines for moving and relocating an endangered building, highlighting the legal precautions and raising issues of accessibility and projected site location. Presents a case history involving two separate moves, some years apart, of the resident physician's house of the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. Notes problems with the structure as a result of poor site alignment.
Keywords
Conservation Information Network;transporting;relocating; construction; lifting;history;detached;USA (Massachusetts)
pub_id
26122