$1 House

[underpants]

A beach house sits on a barge after workers moved it Thursday, March. 12, 2009, in Barneget Light, N.J., as they prepare for the 95-mile waterborne trip to its new home on Long Island. The so-called Lieb House was designed by famed architect Robert Venturi and his wife Denise Scott Brown. The house sold for one dollar. But it will cost another $100,000 to get it there.
(AP Photo/Mel Evans)




Famed architects and husband and wife, Robert Venturi, right, and Denise Scott Brown stand Thursday, March. 12, 2009, in Barneget Light, N.J., near the so-called Lieb House that they designed.

To Save a Venturi House, It Is Moved
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/14/nyregion/14lieb.html?ref=nyregion
The Lieb House, a beach cottage designed by one of the nation’s most prominent architects, Robert Venturi, that became widely studied as a model of modernism, was nearly torn down. Instead, on Friday, the house went on an unusual interstate journey, plodding up the East River on a barge, destined for a new resting place in Glen Cove, on the North Shore of Long Island.

The spectacle attracted a throng of about 150 onlookers to the third floor of Pier 17 at South Street Seaport, including Mr. Venturi, the 83-year-old Pritzker Prize-winning architect who built the house in 1969 for Nathaniel and Judy Lieb. The Liebs had it built near the northern tip of Long Beach Island on the Jersey Shore. The current owner of the property planned to demolish the structure, prompting the unusual rescue effort, which involved selling the house to an owner willing to relocate it.

“This was a major monument in New Jersey architecture,” he said. “New Jersey’s loss is New York’s gain. The important thing is that it’s now getting the attention it deserves.”

“It looks terrific, I’m a little speechless,” said John Halpern, who is working on a film about Mr. Venturi. “There no damage, not even a glass, not even a scratch. It looks like it’s been unwrapped from a box.”

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1. Tres cool

I'm glad it went to people who already owned a Venturi house, because it suggests they will respect the architectural integrity. They seem to have placed the cottage on the same property as their main house, so it will make Venturi pilgrimages more convenient!

[ejpoeta]

2. wonder if it will end up on an episode of mega movers or one of those shows.

my hubby loves to watch them.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

3. I just saw this on my NY AM teevee news. Very cool and it's instances like this that

make me wish I had the means ($$$$$) to do something like this.