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A house raised and held on box cribs during foundation work. House raising (also called house lifting, house jacking, barn jacking, building jacking) is the process of separating a building from its foundation and temporarily raising it with hydraulic screw jacks.
Timber in the mansion was sourced from the grounds of the General Schuyler House in Saratoga, New York. [48] [56] The house was mostly done by mid-1802, although some work such as painting continued through February 1803. [45] [40] Hamilton wrote a letter to Eliza in late 1803, requesting alterations to an ice house on the site.
Rising Ground is a large [1] human services organization in New York City, with approximately 1,600 employees [2] supporting more than 25,000 children, adults, and family members annually. Founded in 1831 as the Leake and Watts Orphan House, [ 3 ] Rising Ground focused on providing child welfare services for much of its existence.
Guy Park, also known as Guy Park State Historic Site or Guy Park Manor, is a house built in 1774 in the Georgian style for Guy Johnson, the Irish-born nephew and son-in-law to Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, the British Superintendent for Indian Affairs in colonial New York. Built of limestone, the house was originally situated on a square ...
The house was first enlarged in 1836 when Richard Hart was Mayor of Troy. Richard Hart died in 1843. Betsey remained in the house till her death in 1886 and her daughter Sarah Wool Hart was the last Hart to live in the house. She died in 1892 and the house was then sold to George B. Cluett, founder of Cluett, Peabody & Co. Inc. makers of Arrow ...
Some homeowners are raising their homes four, five, or even six feet -- but for others, the sky's the limit. In uptown New Orleans, WGNO found a single story house raised a full 20 feet ...
The Benjamin N. Duke House, also the Duke–Semans Mansion and the Benjamin N. and Sarah Duke House, is a mansion at 1009 Fifth Avenue, at the southeast corner with 82nd Street, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It was built between 1899 and 1901 and was designed by the firm of Welch, Smith & Provot. The house, along with ...
Essex Village Historic District is a national historic district located at Essex in Essex County, New York.The district contains 150 contributing buildings. It encompasses the historic core of the hamlet of Essex and primarily contains early-19th-century buildings.