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From a school to a casino, a brief history of epic building moves in S.F.


From a school to a casino, a brief history of epic building moves in S.F.
By Peter Hartlaub
The move of a 139-year-old home from 807 Franklin St. around the corner to Fulton Street on Sunday was the distraction San Francisco needed.
But the joyous event that dominated social media, as crews took down wires and trimmed roadside trees to facilitate the move, turns out to be just a small footnote in a city that can’t seem to keep its buildings in one place.
At one point in the 1940s and 1950s, house moves were so frequent there were three different San Francisco companies bidding for the jobs. It happened so often, sometimes dozens of moves in a year, that a Victorian on blocks could be on the city flag. ....

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S.F. wanted denser housing. So developers shipped a Pac Heights mansion on a barge across the Bay


The S.F. mansion that made waves
In 1962, developers shipped a Pacific Heights mansion across the bay. It was a bold move to create denser San Francisco housing. There was no sequel.
The S.F. mansion that made waves
In 1962, developers shipped a Pacific Heights mansion across the bay. It was a bold move to create denser San Francisco housing. There was no sequel.
It looked like a surreal scene from a Pixar film, more than three decades before Pixar films existed.
A Pacific Heights mansion, chain-sawed into two 85-ton pieces, was rolled through several city blocks and then shipped across the bay on a barge to a new home in Belvedere. It was a refugee of a changing San Francisco, captured in 1962 by Chronicle photographers as it floated away from Coit Tower, Alcatraz and the Golden Gate Bridge. ....

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