Move it or Lose it
Readers seek help for preservation emergencies
/ July 11, 2001
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This upstate New York rectory must be moved or it will be demolished. (Mary Lowery)
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Dear Preservation 911,
I am writing on behalf of my church in Bolivar, N.Y., about
90 miles southwest of Rochester and Buffalo, just a few
miles north of the Pennsylvania border. Our rectory, which
is the minister's house, has beautiful woodwork and trim,
four bedrooms, two baths, a full attic, porches, balcony,
and two fabulous fireplaces. It is old and unoccupied, and
the church building committee has decided that it is too
expensive to get the house up to code to rent it out.
So the building is going to be demolished, no matter how
much some of us hate the idea. We hope it can be moved and
lived in instead.
I am looking for someone to either move the house
or to purchase the woodwork or fixtures. If the house is moved,
the church would like the site filled in and seeded with new grass.
Please check out the pictures
I have online and let me know if you are interested, or if you
could recommend someone else.
Thank you,
Mary Lowery,
Bolivar, N.Y.
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