News of the move 

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 will be accomplished by pulling the Carriage House by a cable attached to a winch on Clay Street.  The cable will be threaded past a house on Clay and attached to the under-structure on which the Carriage House has moved since Saturday morning up Columbia.

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Recent Media Coverage of Friends of the Ladd Carriage House

• Oregonian Coverage for June 17, 2007 with Move reports
• Coverage of the Move on June 16, 2007, in The Oregonian blogs (PDF 1.1 MB)
• "Floating to a New Home" Oregonian Coverage, June 14, 2007
• Carriage House Taking Temporary Residence, The Oregonian, April 11, 2006 (PDF 1.2 MB)

Fun Facts Discovered During the Move

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

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