The house is stored in dry barns and can be transported on a flatbed.

Many pages of meticulous documentation.  Note the engineers tag on the drawings.

Scores of photos taken during disassembly.

This authentic 1740 Saltbox was disassembled carefully and documented with engineering accuracy.  Individual components were manually inspected and renovated.  The major components are irreplacable, and most valuable is the organization of the entire disassembly project to facilitate reconstruction of a large 3,000 square feet historic home.

Saltbox Architecture ... What would the house look like when reconstructed.  

Here is an existing house ... the Deacon Peck house windows are much larger.   These are big ... 3,000 sqft houses.

ResErections collaborates with local architects and tradesmen at both the source and destination of the buildings. We do not rebuild because we have no control over what the new owner and architect want to do. We build the supply chain between the seller and the buyer of reputable professional firms. We document the structure, supervise on-site work standards, disassemble, package, and ship the recovered components. We recover everything that will not crumble when touched.

Early Colonials homes were built on small rural acreages - 2 - 5 acres + that the occupants could farm.  Now surrounded by urban subdivisions, the land they occupy are prime resources for developers to infill with multiple houses.

Demolition threatens these architectural beauties.  Demolition sneaks up on buildings, as desirable redevelopment efforts function privately until the demolition permit is issued and the axe is already falling. Often the  buildings are going to be removed for good reasons by seasoned construction and development firms with institutional and government support.  Too often, they wind up in landfills.

It takes 2 days to demolish, but 2 months to document and disassemble a frame house.   Worthy endangered houses can be moved by local professional architects, engineers, and construction tradesmen resulting in a historic, modern, efficient house on desirable sites worth far more than it cost.  

Most historic structures suitable for preservation are supported by public interest, funding, tax credits, historic listings, et al. ... placing costly technical requirements on new owners often requiring continuous communal oversight and public funding.  It is often not worth the effort, and worthy architecture is lost to redevelopment and demolition by the inability to secure enough money to save and sustain the building.  ResErections sidesteps these issues by securing a private buyer for the house at prices reflecting the low costs of carefully documented disassembly ... each item is identified on schematics and numbered with metal tags and packed in a barn.

ResErections does not rebuild.  Prices quoted herein are for the work ResErections actually performs ... acquisition, documentation, disassembly, and preparation of shipping and our perception of the value of the rebuilt house.  Freight costs would depend on distance.  The buyer will need to employ local architectural trade professionals to rebuild. 

These houses are free from oversight by authorities other than the future site's municipal building department.  There are no committees to satisfy.  The owner and his architect/engineering staff are free to redesign the house to the owner's desires.  We hope that the external character of the house is retained and enhanced, and expect the interiors to be comfortably modern.  The Saltbox at 2,964 sqft is large enough to command a high- end redevelopment.

It can be successfully rebuilt on a new site with the participation of local architect/construction firm employed by the buyer.  Architecture is a local business.  66% of firms have less than 5 partners, and 90% of income is disbursed as salaries.  They have expertise, and most importantly, connections with local building departments and local craft trades resources.  With their participation in planning, it is possible to secure bank mortgages.  The final cost of a reconstructed house would probably be 3 to 4 times the disassembly cost, or $ 150-200 per sqft. 

ResErections will not tie the buyer's reconstruction efforts to  bureaucratic qualifications for government tax credits or require the employment of certified historic craftsmen and archivists or seek protective covenants and expensive finicky rehabilitation agreements ensuring that the buildings will be protected from changes. We do not offer cultural resource management, historic preservation planning, historical research, litigation encouragement and support, and academic grantsmanship.   We will not solicit government - taxpayer - dollars to do the work.   You Buy It ... We Ship it ... You ReBuild It ... You Own It.