The Revitalist

This stunning video of the relocation of an 1883 Victorian carriage house in Portland is from The Oregonian (via Urban Planning Blog). The house belongs to a local church who was having trouble keeping up with its maintenance and was in desperate need of additional parking. A developer who participated in some the Pearl Street rehab projects presented a solution. They would assemble sites next to the church, build a new condo tower with an underground parking structure, and the church would be able to utilize some of the parking. The hitch was the historic carriage house, which was located right where the parking would be. The developer's unique solution was to move the house to a parking lot three blocks away, where it would sit for a year while the underground parking structure was built, and then move the house back to its original location when the construction is complete. Wow.