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The Return Move Was Completed October 25, 2008

Ceremony Marking the Return Was Scheduled for 10am, October 25

Speakers from key businesses and institutions that were involved with the preservation of the Ladd Carriage House were invited to a brief ceremony in the South Park Blocks near the FOLCH information tent.  Participants included:

• Mayor Elect, Sam Adams
• John Bartell, Vice President, Real Estate, Opus NW
• Bill Hawkins, Architect, Architectural Historian and member of Friends of Ladd Carriage House
• Reverend Mark Schlessman, Pastor of First Christian Church
• Craig Kelly, Vice President of Venerable Properties, LLC
• Jan Holt, Second Reader of 6th Church of Christ Scientist
• Carrie Richter, Vice Chairman Portland Historic Landmarks Commission
• Cathy Galbraith, Executive Director, Bosco-Milligan Foundation

During the move the Friends of the Ladd Carriage House had an information kiosk in the South Park Blocks adjacent to Columbia Street and handed out hundreds of copies of an informational brochure.  A downloadable version of the brochure is available here (PDF format).

OregonLive.COM has two great videos that document the move in 2008, plus the links to the 2007 time-lapse video that was such a big YouTube hit.

PreservationDirectory.COM has its own take on the move and their own video.

Story of the Move to Temporary Storage, June 16, 2007 

The move went smoothly (Click here for a few recent photos, including on Move Day) on Saturday, June 16, but much more slowly than originally planned, largely due to extensive work required of the arborists to trim the trees in the path. As of 10:30pm on the night of the 16th the Carriage House had moved to the parking lot which will be its home for 18 months, but had not fully been moved into position.  The crews, exhausted by a day that had continued non-stop since 5am, tied up for the night and prepared to resume their work at 8:00 am on Sunday, June 17.

The final few feet of the journey was accomplished by pulling the Carriage House by a cable attached to a winch on Clay Street.  The cable was be threaded past a house on Clay and attached to the under-structure on which the Carriage House moved up Columbia.

• Project Calendar
• What People Saw

Recent Media Coverage of the Ladd Carriage House and its moves

• Ladd Carriage House Move Oregonian Photo Gallery
• October 26 Oregonian News Coverage
• Oregonian Video Coverage of the October 25 Move
• Background on researching the Carriage House history from the Portland Journal of Commerce
• Carriage House Taking Temporary Residence, The Oregonian, April 11, 2006 (PDF 1.2 MB)
• Ladd Carriage House to Roll Back "Home", The Oregonian, September 8, 2008
   
• Early mention of hopes for saving the Carriage House in the Portland Tribune, 2005
• Another from Portland Tribune, 2005 -- before the decision to keep the LCH on its original site

Fun Facts

The building weighs a total of 534,000 pounds and requires 70,000 pounds in lifting steel for transport.

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