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Time to raise it up again: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_Chicago https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_Chicago
by gdubs 1y ago
Time to raise it up again:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_Chicago https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_Chicago
- ornornor 1y ago> Consequently, the practice of putting the old multi-story, intact and furnished wooden buildings—sometimes entire rows of them en bloc—on rollers and moving them to the outskirts of town or to the suburbs was so common as to be considered nothing more than routine traffic. Incredible!
- aredox 1y agoWas that the inspiration for James Blish's Cities in Flight series? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cities_in_Flight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cities_in_Flight
- skeezyboy 1y agoIm used to seeing wooden sheds on main st, but how were they able to lift a brick building off the ground, did they not have foundations built a few metres into the ground?
- defrost 1y agoUsing common old 19th century Victorian Britain tools; the jack screw, masonry chisel, greased boards, et al .. all that's required is to cut and separate the course above the foundations.
- api 1y agoSimilar thing was done in Seattle.