ResErections, Inc. specializes in
documenting, marketing, and disassembling architecturally unique 19th century
stone mansions that can be reconstructed on sites where the investment results
in the creation of new real estate wealth. Buyers save an endangered
magnificent mansion from demolition and create a marvelous new modern residence.
Recent developments in Laser Imaging and
Measurement and AutoCad and BIM - (building information modeling) architectural
software and RFID item tagging (radio frequency identification) has made the
difficult task of disassembly, relocation, and accurate reconstruction of
buildings practical. We know how to keep track of the thousands of pieces
in a fashion that allows their restoration in their original position with
precision, and how to remove, package, transport, and deliver each at the time
reinstalled.
Currently, we are offering several
magnificent stone mansions .. all from the "Gilded Age" - 1870-1910.
Three impressive Richardson Romanesques, a beautiful Victorian Queen Anne, a New York
Cotswold, and a Beaux Arts Bank, designed by nationally famous architects of the age and built for
leading entrepreneurs.
Romanesque I - 1890
Victorian - 1886
Prices are only a fraction of Value
... Value is a function of Location.
These magnificent homes were built by
noted architects with the finest materials and craftsmanship that only the
ultra wealthy could afford in the days before income taxes. Natural
hand cut stone of the highest quality. Timbers of hardwoods and pines that
today would be sold by the pound for use as veneer.
Interior furnishings that reflect the refined tastes of the era. Many
have magnificent fireplaces, and interior wooden trim.
Each of these houses were built for
successful entrepreneurs and merchants by famed architects of the late 19th
century. Each house has a history and reflects the wealth of their
creators.
The Architects
James W.
McLaughlin (1834-1923) was one of the most important American architects of the
nineteenth century. McLaughlin dominated the Midwest architectural
scene until the turn of the century giving definitive form to numerous
cultural and public institutions during this high point of prosperity,
creativity, and influence. McLaughlin had a distinct style, innovative
structurally and functionally. His best works are his version of the
Richardson Romanesque style.
Samuel Hannaford (1835-1911) is one of
the most admired architects of the late 19th century. His reputation has
endured along with his buildings. His European influenced designs are
often referred to as Richardson Romanesque. Hannaford designed over 300
buildings in the Midwest region. His homes extend from New England to the
Midwest and the South.
Hannaford and McLaughlin - founders
of the gilded age Architecture Association
These houses were built before
the automobile, and are located near the urban heart of older American
cities. Suburbanization after WWII left these masterpieces behind, and
their neighborhoods declined. That is the case with the properties
above, located in unsafe neighborhoods that have a preponderance of
disadvantaged urban housing. In many
cases, the removal of the house would allow the land they occupy to
be put to higher end use. The problem of these houses is that they
are where they are, and not where rational economic people would spend the
resources to save them.
We love these old
houses, and wouldn’t touch a house that is a grace to its surroundings. We
are looking for great old STONE houses
(we cannot save brick or wooden buildings.)
that are located in unfortunate inner city type environments or
are in the way for communities that need the site for public and private
purposes. There are scores of neglected architectural beauties that meet
this description facing demolition.
We are not interested in renovating
buildings on their original sites. We save them in a new location,
capturing new wealth by geographic arbitrage.
“The
problem is national in scope. In historic centers such as Philadelphia,
it's particularly acute— In 2000, Pew's
Heritage Philadelphia Program discovered more than 300 historic house
museums in the Philadelphia region alone. Fewer than 10 percent of those
have endowments of any size, and more than 80 percent are facing
preservation and maintenance costs of about $1 million each, while their
operating budgets average only $100,000. If nothing changes within the next
decade, the research suggests, dozens will be left with no caretakers, no
money and no plans for rescue.”
Completed Disassembly and Shipping
... ResErected !!
The 1885 Kemper Queen Anne has
been reconstructed near Austin. The 1904 Church has been disassembled
and is available to be moved now. Reconstruction of the 1830 American Folk
was completed in Fall, 2018.
In Ohio
Rebuilt In Texas
In Ohio
$ 75,000 - Ready To Ship Now
In Ohio -
1830
Moved 100 miles & ResErected
Recent developments
in Laser Imaging and Measurement and AutoCad and BIM - (building information
modeling) architectural software and RFID item tagging (radio frequency
identification) has made the difficult task of disassembly, relocation, and
accurate reconstruction of buildings practical.
Relocating each of these
houses will create 30 man years of American employment at the origin site, in the supply chain,
and redesign and reconstruction.
Moving these houses is expensive, involving several
professions and crafts. Reserections manages the entire process of
disassembling and shipping these architecturally valuable residences and
employs a wide range of experienced contractors and other experts to
document, disassemble, and transport them.
Purchaser is responsible for design
and construction activities after delivery of the house components to
the destination. It is recommended that the purchaser engage the services of a
local architect and construction firm to reconstruct the house.
There will be substantial work for the buyer's architects at both the
current location and future site. ResErections will collaborate on the
disassembly methods, and integrate LIDAR, RFID, and other digital
information into AutoCAD and BIM software systems.
The Greenest Building is One
Already Built "Preservation saves energy by taking advantage of the nonrecoverable energy
embodied in an existing building and extending its use." Advisory
Council on Historic Preservation. With state of the art engineering and
reconstruction, the recycled building will qualify for a USGBC LEED Gold or
Platinum rating.
PROFESSIONAL TESTIMONIAL >>
Gregory P. Luth, Ph.D., S.E., SECB
...
GPLA Structural Engineers & Builders.
"ResErections
rescues 19th and early
20th century stone mansions using modern laser scanning and BIM technologies to
facilitate deconstruction and reconstruction, moving these magnificent edifices
out of now-decrepit surroundings to sites where their grandeur is an asset.
ResErections utilizes creative
destruction to save some of our doomed historical architectural heritage,
fostering a rebirth of craftsmanship and mobilizing demand to create a new
market. If one were to design one of these houses from scratch, the
wonderful stone would be unavailable or cost prohibitive.
With HD BIM processes, combined with laser scanning,
deconstruction and logistics, these structures can be rebuilt with precision anywhere in the
country, including in high seismic areas. Technologies such as
base isolation and fused shock absorbers make these virtually earthquake
proof, able to survive great earthquakes with minor structural damage.
But that isn’t the best part.
Using modern gravity structures, we can replace the interior bearing wall and
wood floors with long spans that would enable modern open floor plans inside the
classic stone façades."
Reserections
will conduct searches and provide services.
Specific
information on the location, ownership, and other details related to the
houses offered by ResErections, Inc., will be disclosed with a signed
Non-Disclosure agreement protecting confidential information.
There are several
Gilded Age mansions
for private sale and relocation. Three Romanesque, two Queen Anne,
a Georgian Revival, and an English Tudor. Prices
have not been pre-determined but will be in
the area of $ 1-3 million. Interested parties please contact us for
information.
1906 Georgian
Revival - Privately Available
1688 Cape
1755 Colonial
1900 Queen Anne
1885 Romanesque
Question:
If I connect you with a buyer, will you pay a commission ?
Answer:
Yes,
for stone houses valued more than $ 1,000,000, ResErections will pay non-owner individuals who
connect us with a buyer a finders fee of $ 25,000 upon closing. An
additional $ 10,000 fee
would be paid to non-owner individuals that identify additional endangered
houses and provide local support services such as photography and
current owner connections that we market on closing with buyer. You must contact us to establish your role as
an initiator source. A Confidentiality Agreement will be necessary.
Question:
Will the reconstructed
building qualify for Federal and State Tax Credits ?
Answer:
No. Moved mansions will not qualify for
tax benefits or listing on the National Register of Historic Homes. Federal and State Governments offer 20% Tax Exemptions for
substantial renovations to existing historic structures on their present
sites. Projects must meet strict requirements and the building must be used
in an income producing purpose for 5 years. Owner occupied residential
properties do not qualify. In usual cases, the savings from the Tax
Exemptions are outweighed by the cost of paying for professional assistance
meeting Federal, State, Local, and concerned citizen's requirements. It is commendable that
our government encourages and supports conservation of our architectural
heritage by defraying the costs involved in doing the work with preservation
and trade
experts. The goal is renovation on-site and gentrification if
possible. But there are many urban building situations where keeping
the building in the wrong place is a waste of taxpayer money.
In America,
preservation and restoration is a very profitable billion dollar industry.
Maintenance of public and historic structures is high art, with many
professional practitioners. There is no shortage of work to do, and
the majority of the work is paid for institutionally, by government,
taxpayers, or other cultural organizations. It is by no means a
non-profit business. Professional preservationists are obligated
to selectively and responsibly put limited talents and money where the best
of heritage is preserved rather than telling others what their limited
resources and public tax money
should be spent on. Revenue motivated advocates
often whip up well meaning public hysteria and rely on legal obstructionism
to preserve old structures under the guise of "non-profit" - but salary
paying organizations. Good solutions to reclaiming and using historic
structures are criticized as not good enough, resulting in decay and loss,
and worthy structures are demolished because enough money could not be found
to do a better thing. Many structures are located in areas where it is
impractical to renovate on site. Moving endangered structures is a
far better result than scavenging for individual components and
demolition.
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 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 DisAssemble it ... You ReBuild It ... You Own It.
Work done on
these structures will meet the highest architectural and engineering
standards of disassembly and reconstruction. We insist that the work
product will be superlative. It won't be done with government -
and taxpayer - money ... although a lot of permits, filings, millions in taxes
and fees will be paid to government by the owners and doers.
ResErections is a pioneering 15 year old -
innovative business linking independent local architecture, engineering, and
construction businesses with similar firms in other localities nationwide.
We move houses from Ohio to Texas or Connecticut to Kansas. Every
project is new - from and to different towns with different professionals at
each end. Architecture firms in the source city know their
design/construction/permit/taxation et al structures, as do the
architecture firms employed by the new building's owner at the destination
site. We build the supply chain that make this work for each house.
ResErections creates AIA contracts, documentation, coordination, payment,
marketing, transportation, legal, insurance. At both ends, local firms
handle local building departments, commercial relationships, and municipal entities to assure
that the new owner's property is professionally built.
The projects are expensive because
they are large, complex, and deal with big structures that are massive
natural
stone buildings with the mission of accurate reconstruction. Our daily
production management role is to run a Private Internet Cloud
Network for real time information and communication from the buyer to
architect to masons on desktop and
smart phone, and to physically move the house's material and its crucial
documentation, terebytes of data, and 800 to 1,200 tons and 20 truck loads for
several months. We specialize in the documentation, packaging, and safe
shipping of the hundreds of pallets of thousands of pieces from source to a
destination a thousand miles away.
We are aware of no other businesses
with an inventory of fine mansions and internet based access to a worldwide
market that exists for magnificent endangered historic architecture.
We maintain an active web site, and publish a
monthly email newsletter to thousands of architects, engineers, designers,
and realtors.
We are only
interested in completely moving majestic buildings. Buildings whose
value will increase 10-20 times by relocation to suitable vibrant
communities. We create a great deal
for the buyers, the sellers, the doers, and the public.
It will take two years or
more and costs several million to move
a mansion. The original owner cashes out of a problem property.
The new owner's investment is immediately rewarded with a real estate
property worth more than the money spent, so the actual cost is zero, and
the short term ROI often exceeds 100%. Public
financing is a burden ... so many great structures are destroyed. A
better solution is to find private purchasers that want to build private
estates with worthy architectural and historic merit.
The number of Ultra-High-Net-Worth Individuals,
those with $30 million or more in net assets, grew 9.3% to 610,568 last year. North America's UNWHIs led the charge, growing 11.2% in ranks to 233,590.
They are the market. The AEC industry works with them. Turning
American paper wealth into real estate wealth and putting American craftsmen
to work.
The original building has to have been a
largely stone mansion in the 19th century to be worth
moving. We disassemble and deliver a house for
between $ 200 and $ 300 per sqft. High end reconstruction with architects
and top construction firms often build ultra houses between $ 700 and $ 1,500
per sqft. We deliver all of the material to reconstruct the original
building, so the expenditures on the reconstructed house are for interior, high
end features, extra additions, and the site. This means that buyers
could easily spend $ 500 and more per sqft to reconstruct and still be less
expensive than a modern McMansion.
We bring professional architectural and
engineering professionals together to deliver to the buyer a modern authentic
reincarnation of beautiful historic American castles. We gather together
experienced people with expertise and passion for saving these
magnificent structures. Prices suggested for each castle are the expected cost
for aquisition, documentation, disassembly, shipping, and supporting reconstruction by the
buyer's professional team. Firms involved will participate in the
selection of modes of work, subcontractors, and analysis of the ultimate costs of the project. With the exception of the cost of the new site itself, we would expect the
reconstruction cost of the building to be less than twice the cost of delivering
the components to the buyer's site, so the reconstructed cost of these mansions
should be between $ 4 to $ 6 million.
