Brick by Brick Locationless, Locationless, Locationless
By bmac on 04-Jan-03. Waypoint GCBE0E

Now located in Elk Horn, Iowa. This Danish windmill was built in 1848 in Denmark. It was no longer in use at the time that it was purchased from a private owner. It was dismantled and moved to Elk Horn. I lost the page of notes about it while we were on vacation so I can't remember the dates of the move. Visit www.elkhorniowa.com

In Muenster / Germany we have an open-air museum where are a lot of buildings on display, which moved here

This is al litte chapel in front of the museum, build in 1794 and moved there in 1979.

Greetings from Muenster / Germany

Schnueffelnasen

This building is being relocated in a more historical part of Town of Laprairie, Quebec, Canada something about the "patrimoine"

We found this covered market in Erkrath, a town near Düsseldorf, Northrhine-Westfalia, Germany. It comes from Lorraine in France, is over 150 year old and is listed as a historic monument.

Greetings from Germany
Wetterwachs

We found this house in Historic Smithville, New Jersey, USA while driving from Atlantic City. It is the Brower House that was moved to this spot in the 18th century and was in the Brower family until 1956. It is now one of many shops in this lovely tourist town.

Thanks for the cache,

Jessex (UK)

History of this house is writed on the picture!

This building belongd to the William's family. It was built in the 1850's. It was one of the 1st resedents in this area. When they built the new library they moved it from it's original loaction to the place it is now.

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The Japanese Tower in Brussels

This tower was moved to the present place from...Paris, France, where it was an attraction of the 1900 World Exhibition. The wooden structures and gilded copper plates of the tower were originating from Japan.
King Leopold II was impressed by this building and let it move near his palace. It was re-inaugurated here in may 1905 .
Next is the splendid Chinese House, also a legacy of the reign of Leopold II.

Pierre

Found this site just across a virtual in Lester Park, Saratoga area in N.Y. state.
This is an abandonned Lime Kiln, In the late 1800's
the Hoyt family quarried limestone and burried it for agricultural lime in this kiln. Lime was needed in this region because the sandy soil did not support crops well.

In the small town of Grythyttan you can find this building, originally built in Sevilla, Spain, as the swedish contribution in the 1992 World Exhibition.
1993 it was moved to this spot, and today it is called MÃ¥ltidens hus (the house of culinary arts)

Some quotes from www.maltidenshus.com http://www.maltidenshus.com :

The objective of the House of Culinary Art is to further long-term development and quality in the foodstuffs trade and the restaurant business.
This is fulfilled by means of educational programmes, seminars, exhibitions, conferences and research projects. The House is a lively meeting-place for makers of primary produce, nutritional experts, taste researchers, restaurant keepers, food & drink journalists, foodstuff producers, and
others with a great interest in the Meal.

The House contains the Department of Restaurant & Culinary Art and a gastronomic library, both formally part of Örebro University. Then Bergslagens Skafferi (the Bergslagen Larder (a meal store)), Kalastorget, (the Festive Square (a banquet room)), Gastronomiska Teatern, (the Gastronomy Theatre), exhibition areas, and finally the restaurant Kantinen Hyttblecket.

Since 1994, Örebro University has been running a 120-credit academic education programme of three years duration for chefs and waiters in our House.

Well worth a visit !

/// Bamse & Mummlan

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Cool!

Unitarian Universalist Church
Troupe Square
Savannah, Georgia

Moved from: Oglethorpe Square, Abercorn Street, Savannah, Georgia (United States of America)
Moved to: Troupe Square, Savannah Georgia (Confederate States of America)
Move date: approximately 1862

Church has belonged to several different denominations over the years: Built in 1851 for Unitarian Universalists, Sold to Saint Stephen's Episcopal in 1859 which moved the building and worshiped here until 1948, Acquired by Southern Baptists for mission work, and back to the UU's in 1998 until present.

Interesting Story: The UU congregation left in 1859 or so due to their beliefs against Slavery and persecution/public sentiment agvainst them.

Another Interesting Story: The classic winter song "Jingle Bells" was composed in Savannah by the organist James Lord Piermont.

Oh, and US President Millard Fillmore worshiped here in 1854.

Many thanks to the cache owner for giving me the go-ahead.

in faith, Johann Panholtz

One web link: http://www.jinglebellschurch.org

Another web link: http://www.ourcoast.com/savannahcityguide/visiting/churches/unitarian.shtml

Another web link: http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/gahistmarkers/jinglebellshistmarker.htm (note the photo credit, I know him)

This is Vastveitloftet, one of Skansens oldiest houses. Built in Norway in the beginning of 14th Century. Moved from Telemarken in Norway to Stockholm, Sweden.

It's the only building at Skansen that doesn't have it origin within Sweden.

The house is located on a top at the park (next to the zoo with bear, lynx, wolverine, wolf, moose, raindeer!), with a splendid view over Stockholm.


Skansen is a big park with animals, houses etc from most parts of Sweden. It's like a small miniature Sweden...

St James Old Cathedral
Cnr Batman & King St
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Googling "building relocated melbourne" bought up a fascinating candidate for Brick by Brick - The St James Old Cathedral.

Built in 1842 at the north-west corner of Collins and William Streets, it took the site of Melbourne's all-denominations Pioneer Church (1837). Its supersession resulted in its being re-erected in King Street in 1914.

Some links:

http://www.onlymelbourne.com.au/melbourne_details.php?id=3828 Only Melbourne article on Melbourne's oldest building.

http://www.anglican.org.au/archive/images.cfm?BrowseCategory=2 Anglican Church Archives, including a photo of the church in 1842.

http://heritage.gov.au/cgi-bin/ahpi/record.pl?VICH11 Australian Heritage Directory

Sigdal House was originally built in 1770. The house was restored according to museum standards in Sigdal Norway dismantled and shipped to Minot North Dakota. Dedicated in 1991.

N 42° 47.920 W 086° 05.751
De Zwaan Windmill moved from Netherlands to Holland,MI USA

"De Zwaan", America's one and only working Dutch windmill is located in Holland, MI. The 240-year old (plus) windmill stands 12 stories high. It was given to the city of Holland by the Netherlands in 1964 and taken apart “brick by brick†and transported from the Netherlands to Holland, MI USA. As windmills are considered National Treasures by the Dutch, it was considered a very rare honor and special gift to the City of Holland, MI. De Zwaan was the last windmill to leave the Netherlands. Dutch law now prohibits the removal of windmills and classifies them as national monuments. (I hope this qualifies under the rules clarification: this was a gift from a country, Netherlands, to a town, Holland, MI USA, but it had stood in its home country for some 200 years before being moved)

S 34° 54.659 E 138° 34.282
S 34° 54.659 E 138° 34.282

Whoops. Got my wires crossed last night.
I will try this building. In it's lifetime it has served two purposes. The first was as a railway shed 200km north of the present location in the town of Terowie. Now just a ghost town.

In the 1950's it was moved south to the present location in Adelaide. Currently it is part of the Adelaide University precinct. The building houses a canteen with the name of Einstein's.

The building has a reputation though. It is reported to be the actual location where General McArthur uttered his immortal words. "I shall return".

It is well known that the words were reported from Terowie. The general was taking a train to Sydney. Apparently he didn't like air travel. The press conference is supposed to have occurred in this shed, when it was 200km away from its present position.

According to other sources. McArthur said his special quote at every opportunity. It just happened to be at Terowie that a reporter wrote them down. That is the story anyway.

Visited Bert Hinklers house in Bundaberg while on holidays. Had been there a couple of times before when I was unaware of geocaching. Picture to follow shortly.

Found inside the premises of Weir Strahan and Henshaw. They make bits and pieces for the local diesal submarine build.

Not sure what make or model it is.

Off the subject. When Weir Strahan and Henshaw answer the phone it sounds like "we're Strahan and Henshaw". Had me confused for a long time as you can see.

I thought this might qualify as a find for this geo cache. It is not as big as a house but it came from China. The photo tells the history of the item. TFTC

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Stadium High School is one of Tacoma's most famous landmarks. Construction begain in the 1800s as a hotel. But when the project petered out, the building was removed brick by brick by the railroad to make train depots. When the community rallied to save the building bricks and stone slabs were taken from a Fern Hill structure to finish The Castle. As you can see the structure, which will turn 100 next year, is under construction again.

This example was from materials originally built in Italy. The detailed stained glass is also from Italy, but made and then sent over afterwards.

Well before the Indian residential schools were established in 1886, the notion for the St. Eugene's Catholic Mission was started by Reverend Father Fouquet, a Catholic priest of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. He had the small chapel for worship at Kootenay, B.C., brought over and the Ktunaxa people would gather there for religious holidays to attend the Catholic Mass. After Father Fouquet came Father Coccola, a Roman Catholic priest who wanted education for the Ktunaxa children and asked the government for a school to be built for the Kootenay Indians at the Mission. A residential school was erected in 1912 built from Indian education funds and was shut down in 1970. It is the largest historical building in the region.

Found this pagode from Nepal in the area of the "westpark", munich germany. The pagode was built in Nepal, carried to munich and rebuilt for the IGA in the year 1983.
300 Nepalesen worked for 7 month in Munich.

Thx for the cache and greetings from Bavaria,

Michi

This is a stone manor house in Baltimore County, Maryland that was moved from the U.K. It is called Llyn Awn. Since it's a private residence, I rounded off the coordinates to the nearest half a degree. This house was disassembled, every stone numbered, and reassembled on a hill overlooking Loch Raven Reservoir. It was moved in the late 1960's, while my was living in the area. It has a beautiful view. The house used to be more visible from the closest road, but the trees have grown up over the past 35-40 years so that only part of it can be seen.

A pleasant historical restaurant to spend time enjoying German-style comfort food after a day of skiing at the Kimberley Alpine Resort in the British Columbia Rockies.

I read in the local paper that his house was moved from Canada to Friday Harbor in Washington. There are actually two that are mirror images of one another. The rest should be put in place as soon as the foundation has cured.

Yin Yu Tang is the name of this house that was disassembled in Huang China and brought to the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem Massachusetts, where it was reassembled. The house was first built by a merchant around 1800. The merchant's family continued to live in the house for eight generations. In the 1990’s as China transformed from an agricultural area to high tech, the family moved away. The house was sold to the museum for display. Carpenters from China were brought over to work on the reassembly. The complete process including careful labeling of all components took three years and was documented on PBS. This is the only complete house from the Qing dynasty outside of China. The house is an example of many Huizhou architectural concepts.
Coordinates listed are for the entrance to the Peabody Essex Museum that encloses Yin Yu Tang.

http://www.pem.org/yinyutang/

Japanese Immigrants' House, moved from Registro, Brazil to Meiji-Mura, Inuyama City, Japan. This house was built in 1919 by the Kubota family using local materials. Mr. Kubota was one of 150,000 Japanese who immigrated to Brazil before World War II. The house was relocated to Meiji-Mura, Japan in 1975.

This house is about 100 years old. It comes from the former capital of Thailand, Ayuthia. It was originally the govenors private residence. Originally, it was extended with a similar building connected with a footbridge.
At the entracne to the area is a miniature house on a pole housing a jar of water that visitors might refresh themselves with. On the other side of the entrance is another miniature house with an altar for the spirits of the house where the residents of the house sacrificed rice, flowers and incense.
The stairs lead up to a sheltered porch. Presumably, a ladder of bamboo was originally used - one which could be retracted with regards to avoiding thieves at night. The porch houses a small fireplace and a kitchen. It is here that you spend most of your time and it is also here you would recieve visitors. The slightly more raised main room is private for the family. This room contains sleeping places, shelves, closits, chests and a small Bhuddist altar.
All larger tools are kept under the house: Plow, rice grinding mill, different kinds of fish traps. There is a fireplace too, and the place is oftenly used as a workshop, though it has to be evacuated during the monsoon rain from july to september.

The Thai House was dismantled and reconstructed in Denmark in 1975. My father, who was a draft resister at the time, served his draft at the museum and has also helped rebuild this house.

Iglesia localizada en Guadalajara, Spain.

La nueva parroquia de San Diego de Alcalá procede del traslado de la iglesia parroquial de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de la Villa de "El Atance". El templo, propio de la arquitectura rural del final del gótico, de valor histórico y artístico, fue trasladado a Guadalajara por el Ministerio de Medio ambiente para evitar que desapareciera bajo las aguas del embalse de "El Atance". Marzo de 2004.

This church is located in Guadalajara, Spain.

The new parish of San Diego de Alcalá comes from the transfer of the parochial church of Our Mrs. of the Asunción of the Villa of "The Atance." The temple, characteristic of the rural architecture of the end of the Gothic, of historical and artistic value, it was transferred to Guadalajara to avoid that it disappeared under the waters of the reservoir of "The Atance." March of 2004.

Today I visited the Open Air Museum in Sorgenfri, North of Copenhagen, Denmark. (http://www.nationalmuseet.dk/sw4621.asp) (in Danish)
It is a lovely museum with more than 100 buildings, where you can discover how farmers and smallholders lived and worked in the 1700s, 1800s and 1900s.
The buildings range from cottages to manor houses to windmills and watermills, from poor houses to the smithy, lace school and pottery workshop.
Here, I saw this cottage from Mule, Bordø on the Faroe Isles. It was originally build in 1866 and later dismantled and rebuild in the museum in Denmark appx. 1300 kilometers away.

This is our weekend cottage.
Actually this house has been assembled in three countries.
First it was build on a factory in Ukraine. (no pictures).
Then it was set up as a demonstration house in Helsingor, Denmark.
I bought it in 2003. Disassembled it an brought it to Sweden where it is now.
Klaus

this building is at little norway, wisconsin, between blue mounds and mount horeb. this building was built near trondheim, norway in 1892-93 for display at chicago world's fair in 1893. after the world's fair, the building was moved to lake geneva, wisconsin and later became the property of the william wrigly family. in 1935, little norway's founder, isak dahle, had the building dismantled and moved to it's current location.

We opted to go and find the original... i.e. the Bert Hinkler House in Bundaberg.

A top spot, lots of history and in a beautiful setting. Unfortunately we went on a day when the steam train wasn't running nearby, so we missed out on that.

Thanks for the history lesson!

"The Fulton Stone House is an original building brought to the Park from the township of Donegal Springs in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and was the home of Samuel Fulton who emigrated from Co. Donegal in Ireland in the early 18th century. At that time the township of Donegal Springs was a remote frontier outpost inhabited mainly by Scotch-Irish settlers from West Ulster."

This house is part if The Ulster American Folk Park outside Omagh, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland. This museum is an excellent place to visit and you could easily spend the full day there. I'm very pleased to be able to use it for this pretty original cache.

[url=http://www.folkpark.com/collections/America/buildings/samuel_fulton_stone_house/]More info on The Fulton Stone House[/url]
[url=http://www.folkpark.com/]More info on The Ulster American Folk Park[/url]

In the 1840's, the Sierra foothills were about as far from anywhere as you could want to go, but there were intrepid folks that wanted to settle and farm. Rregular communitys were starting to form.
Then gold was found and all hell broke loose. It was hard to get anyone to do any thing but prospect.
This building was brought in from China, in a pile of boards. Across by schooner, then up the Sacramento River. It was the county court house.
Now it is in a back yard, and a private museum.

This is St. Mary of Aldermanbury Church. It was built in London by Christopher Wren after the Great Fire of London in 1666. It served its congregation until it was blitzed during WWII. It was about to be torn down when it was decided to move it brick by brick to Fulton, Mo in 1967 to serve as a memorial to Winston Churchill. Churchill had given his Sinews of Peace Speech nearby. This was the first time the phrase Iron Curtain was used.

Cache Maintance – Brick-by-brick

Hello,

I am currently checking the logs for my reverse/locationless geocache, “Brick by Brick†to see that they meet the specified requirements. I think this is important to keep the ‘specialness’ of this type of cache, as more so given a large resentment in the geocaching community to these types of cache. Anyway, the requirements on the cache page clearly state that each structure may only be logged once, and also that the structure must be moved from one country to another. However, instances not fulfilling these requirements may still be of interest to some, I am prepared to allow them to remain on this page as notes, not finds. Could the cachers with the logs in question please change their find to a note. I will contact those with logs in question. Any remaining find logs will be removed next Monday.

Regards,
Brendan.

This is the "Pazo de Campoluengo" a nice rural big house now converted to a restaurant. It's placed in Madrid, but it was built in Pontevedra, Region of Galicia, Spain. It was moved brick-by-brick from its original location to Madrid in 1962 (about 600 kilometers). I think this cache doesn't fulfil the requirements (moved in the same country), but I think it could be interesting to post it for your information. Best Regards / Juande.
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Este es el Pazo de Campoluengo, una bonita finca campestre ahora convertida en restaurante. Está ubicado en Madrid, pero fue construido en Pontevedra, Galicia, España. Fue transportado piedra a piedra desde su emplazamiento original hasta Madrid en 1962 (en torno a 600 Km). Creo que este cache no cumple completamente todos los requisitos (el movimiento es dentro del mismo pais), pero creo que podría ser interesante registrarlo para vuestra información. Un Saludo / Juande.

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We found this cache situed in the "Parque del Oeste" in Madrid (Spain). This is the Temple of Debod.

Thanks for this cache.
Goldfinders.

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The Swedish Pavillion:

Lindsborg Kansas:

Moved here from St. Louis Missouri:

Moved to St louis from Sundbyberg Sweden:

Just north of Stockholm Sweden, the building was built for the 1904 World's fair in St. Louis, after being built in Sweden, it was moved to St. Loiuis. Following the world's fair, it was moved to Lindsborg. A really unique structure, built following the design of the traditional Swedish Manor House.

This building on the move was donated to Bethany College, who in turned donated it to the Lindsborg Histoical Society, causing it to be moved again from the Bethany Campus to the Museum grounds. It now serves as an anchor to the museum grounds, near the Old Mill. So this building has been moved once Internationally, once Interstate, and once Innerstate. Thanks for the cool cache. Glen*

More info at http://www.oldmillmuseum.org/pavilion.html

In my place of birth - Bad Zwischenahn ( Oldenburg, Lower Saxony, NW-Germany ) - we have a big Museum of old farmhouses and adjoining buildings. All the houses were build new - brick by brick - in the last 100 years. Our society is allways looking for old farmhouses. We buy them - pull them down and place the in a big special area - to errect them again later.

Have a visit ! => http://www.ammerlaender-bauernhaus.de/

spuchtfink and faltohr
( Tammo and Doris )
from
Bremen / Germany
- the city of the townmusicians

http://www.brementownmusicians.com/en/main

This fine church in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, started out as a railway station. Not just any station; it was in a very large cemetery in Sydney, NSW from 1868 to 1948 and, with its own dedicated track, was used for funerals. It was carefully taken down then re-assembled and dedicated as a church.

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These famous London Bridge "bricks'/stones were moved from London to Lake Havasu in 1979. Hopefully no one else has already logged this site because I have been looking for a Brick by Brick in many different states as I travel about the US on business. Oops!!! I just re-read the instructions and see that it is supposed to be a house. Would you believe that this bridge leads to a house? Oh well! I guess I'll keep looking.

The Chapelle de St Martin de Sayssuel, a 15th century Gothic oratory built in the French village of Chasse. Discovered after WWI by architect Jacques Couelle who helped arrange its relocation to Long Island, New York in 1926. In 1964 it was given to Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and was reconstructed on the campus and dedicated to St Joan of Arc.
Uncle_Fun

For my choice we have the Harbour's Board building at 201 Victoria Square, Adelaide. It used to be at 211 Victoria Square, Adelaide. But rather than demolish the building when they want the corner site, they moved it. All 1000 tonnes, on roller skates. No bull, read the note.

The panorama shows the extent of the move. Not international but pretty neat all the same.

Regards

Freddo

The Field is a restaurant that was moved from Ireland to the United States.

http://thefield.com/index.html

I am hoping to go eat there soon!

This is the Monastery of St. Bernard de Clairvaux. It was originally built in Segovia, Spain between 1133-1141. It was the home for Cistercian monks for about 700 years before being seized and sold. W. R. Hearst purchased the monastery and had it disassembled and shipped to the U.S. where it was eventually reassembled near Miami. It is now owned by the Anglican church and is called St. Bernard's Church. The whole story can be confirmed at www.spanishmonastery.com/history.asp.
Also, the pictures are from the gate. The monastery was closed for the day and the gate was locked. This was as close as we could get. The coordinates are for the gate.

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Found at:
Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum & Planetarium
1342 Naglee Ave
San Jose, CA 95191

This temple was moved from Egypt to USA in 1966 when the museum was opened to the public.

Hi!
Bert Hinkler was a son of a mill worker? So I found a little "house-water-mill", which has moved in 2003 from Korea, Province Pyongchang (Region Sobaek/Taebeck San) to Germany, Region LowerSaxony, Gifhorn.
Thanks to bmac, respectively to Brendano, for the difficult but very nice cache.
Regards
Hans Richardt

This is the absolutely amazing Nepal-Himalayan-Pavilion, which is now located: Martiniplatte, 93109 Wiesent, Bavaria, Germany, in a small, more than 1200 years old village in the Upper Palatinate (Oberpfalz) between Regensburg and Straubing. For more details please check:
www.nepal-himalaya-pavillon.de/index.html
It is open to the public (until Oct 3rd): only on Sundays, between 13:00 - 17:00 hours and Mondays, between 14:00 - 17:00 hours.
800 (!) Nepalese woodcarver families have originally built this temple over a period of about 3 years. This pavilion has been transferred to Germany in the year 2000, for impressively representing Nepal during the EXPO world exhibition in Hanover. After the EXPO the whole complex has been completely dismantled again and reconstructed in Wiesent in 2001. The carvings are made of Sal wood, a special kind of wood, which grows in the south of Nepal. It is heavier than stone and sinks in water! If you are around - take the chance and go for a visit - this work of art is absolutely breathtaking! Thanks for the GC! Happy hunting to everybody – cheers! SaRa – Sabine + Rainer

Originally built in 1618 by the Steinbach family, this house was located in Wahlbach, Sundgau, southern Alsace France, until it was disassembled and then completely reassembled in Castroville, TX. Official completion was April 2002.

This is Agecroft Hall, originally built in Lancaster, England in the late 15th century and transferred to its present location in Richmond, Virginia, USA in the nineteen-twenties. For more information about Agecroft, see its website http://www.agecrofthall.com/ .

Memphis Belle

This Diner is located in St-Eustache, Quebec, Canada on the 25th avenue.

It was built by the Mountain View Diner Corporation. It is a Mountain View Streamliner model originaly used for a US Army camp in Massachussett. In 1980, it was used by a building entrepreneur for storage. It was bought by the Mather's group in 1995 and moved to it's actual location to be used as a Diner again.

N 39° 48.672 W 086° 09.492
Found this playhouse in the Children's Museum of Indianapolis. It Was moved two or three places before ending where all these fortunate children can play.

N 49° 47.520 E 009° 55.038
This old house from the Normandy, France, was more than 100 years old when it was brought to the town of Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany. It was a gift of the French sister town of Würzburg for the "Landesgartenschau" (country of Bavaria garden exhibition) in 1990.

Greetings fanto

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N 40° 43.000 W 003° 25.555
This is Debod's temple. This wonder of bricks was moved from the Nilo riverbed (Egypt) to Madrid (Spain), to avoid be sunk under the Assuan dam water.

Coordinates are exactly, trick is that the building is big and I could choose the most rounded ones.

N 49° 41.067 W 115° 59.303
Mrs. Pirate has been waiting patiently to take a drive to Kimberly British Columbia to take pictures of this house since she read about it in "British Columbia Magazine" several months ago. The "Old Bauernhaus" was built in Southern Bavaria about 350 years ago. In 1987 the house was taken apart and two years later the materials were packed into two containers (we assume these were quite large containers) and taken to Kimberly, "The Bavarian City of the Rockies" where it was reconstructed and is now a restaurant.
Here is a link to a web site on the Brauernhaus
(visit link)
Kootenay Pirates

N 37° 33.261 W 077° 30.204
Agecroft Hall is a Tudor style home that was moved from England to Richmond, Virginia. I have gone on a tour here before and the house is beautiful. The had done some restoration work not too long ago. You can check out the website at Agecroft Hall.

S 37° 48.881 E 144° 58.755
This is Captain Cook's Cottage, located in Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne, Australia. It was built in 1755 in Great Ayton, England by his father, and brought to Melbourne in 1934 to commemorate his voyage to Australia.

N 43° 02.258 W 087° 55.854
This chapel is currently located on Marquette campus in Milwaukee, Wi. This is the Chapel Dedicated to ST. Joan of Arc. This chapel was originally built in the 1500's in the village of Chasse, France. It was moved to the U.S. in 1926 to Long Island, NY. In 1964 it was donated to Marquette University

N 40° 07.382 W 082° 55.835
Westerville, Ohio - Kyoto Japanese Museum. A very unlikely location for a Japanese home, shrine and garden, but this place has fascinated me since I moved to the area. It seems that the Kyoto Tea House, Moon Bridge and Shinto Shrine plus other structures were all imported in from the Orient to form this walk through museum. It seems to have been closed for some time, but I took a few pictures with info in some of them.

Will post pics tonight.

N 17° 29.805 W 088° 11.016
The coordinates are of the US Embassy in Belize City, Belize. Uploaded are a couple of pictures - one of the sign, and one of the building with a couple of Cajunlimeys in front of it. Believe it or not, our GPS is resting on the stroller... We wanted to be a little subtle as I wasn't sure how the guards would react to our taking GPS readings of a US embassy... The building has an interesting history, which is caputured on the sign, and here is a quick taster:

This building housing the US embassy was originally erected in 1866 in New England, and then, along with a few other buildings, was knocked down and sent as ballast in freighters to Belize City where they were reassembled and served as homes. In the mid 1930s, the US purchased this building to serve as a consulate in what was then British Honduras...

N 29° 56.066 W 090° 04.758
I have selected a house of food, the Eiffel Tower Restaurant which spent years feeding thousands of Paris visitors up in the Eiffel Tower. It was disassembled into 11,000 pieces and reassembled at 2040 St Charles Avenue in the historic Garden District of New Orleans.

I used to work across the street from it's new location and watched as they assembled it. That was back in 1985. Unfortunately, it was another victim of the savings and loan scandals of that period and the borrower had overextended himself and went bankrupt. I don't recall the numbers but it resold for a fraction of the cost and over the next 18 years evolved into what is now the Red Room which features dining and dancing. As you can see, my photos show that the structure is in need of some paint.

You can read more about it's interesting journey at (visit link)

N 47° 54.271 E 010° 07.922
We found that house in bavaria (Germany). It was moved over 800km from the north and was rebuilt in 1920. It is originally a farm house from the peat-bog. You can visit it currently in the Bauernhofmuseum in Illerbeuren.
It ist made of bricks and is covered with wood on the outside.
Regards Landmaus

Infos: (visit link)

N 40° 49.682 W 074° 13.574
I will almost guarentee this that this is the best story of any log that will be made this cache... This is Kips Castle. The Castle was originally located in Europe and in 1902 was shipped stone by stone to Montclair NJ. Built for Frederick Kip, a textile mechant the castle was nothing more then a unique building until 1980 when it was purchased by Ghagwan Shree Rajneesh, an indian swami who had 200,000 followers world wide & 400 centers. The followers of the bhagwan (which means god incidently) surrendered all their possesions to the leader, and would even give up their names. He came to America in the hopes ofg gaining new followers. He placed ads in various publications including Time which said SEX: never repress it! Explore all the nooks and corners of your sexuality, it will be a lot more fun.

And that was that. Now the town was whirling in rumors about a sex cult. The cult members wore red & orange at all times, and the Bhagwan covered the castle walls w/sheet rock, and even had the stained glass windows smashed so the followers wouldn't become attatched to them. Meanwhile Bhagwan practiced driving on the roads of Montclair in one of his 83 rolls royces.

With this new center firmly established he purchased a 65,000 acre property in Oregon where he established an airport, and all the typical trappings of a small town including restaurants, a hair salon and the like. Unfortunately it eventually fell apart.

The center tried to annex a neighboring town in Oregon into his possesion by having the members move in, then (outnumbering the locals) voting in their own onto the town council. His #2, Sheela was accused of some pretty heinous stuff including burning down the County planning office. She fled the country and was eventually arrested in Germany.

The Bhagwan had originally come to the US under a cloud of trouble, mostly from tax problems in other countries and evnetually he was arrested on imigration charges, and deported to India where he died of a heart attack.

Kip's Castle was eventually sold to a trio of lawyers (visit link) who still own the castle to this day. I recently visited because there are concerns over the future of Kips Castle. The proeprty is now up for sale for 4.8 million, and the fear is that the 10.5 acres could yield dozens of townhouses if the castle were leveled (a legitimate concern, right next door is such a development called Kips Condos. Ugly, ugly UGLY!)

Website for a preservation group concerned with the future of this site...

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Here's a real estate listing, and a quote:

The main building, which is fully powered and equipped with a modern HVAC system totals 9,131+ square feet with original woodwork, stained glass windows and 6 fireplaces. An adjacent stone carriage house offers an additional 5,000 square feet of totally renovated office space for a total of 14,131 square feet of elegant and historic space with all the modern conveniences

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When i originally visited, I drove past the 10 ft tall pillars and iron gate fence, up the switchback driveway only to find the lawyers had gone home for the day. I was the only one around and it was a real scooby doo moment as I emerged off the switchback driveway path to see the castle at it came into view. I eventually did return in August, and was given a tour, including a visit to the roof, where I found one of the most i pressive views of NYC in the area.

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N 40° 09.134 W 074° 42.526
This house may or may not be exactly what were looking for. There was a house in scotland the house was taken down , the bricks were taken from that house
and used to build this house here in the USA.I'm told it was some special type of brick. I was told of this house when I was a kid. I couldn't find and other information . I talked to a neighbor who had heard the story but he had no info either. This has peaked my interest so I'll see what else I can find out and post it here.



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N 38° 17.932 W 122° 27.729
This building, called the Swiss Chalet, is on the grounds of Lachryma Montis, a 20-acre estate in scenic Sonoma, California. The estate was built in 1850-1851 by General Mariano Vallejo, a figure who looms large in early California history. While visiting this site (now part of Sonoma State Historic Park) I asked the ranger why this building was called the Swiss chalet. He mentioned that the frame was pre-built in Europe, imported to America, and re-assembled on the property. It was left to Vallejo's builders to find the rest of the materials for the building locally, but as it turns out the bricks also came from Europe, but from a different source -- they were used as ballast in ships crossing the ocean.

I did a bit more research that seems to back up the ranger's claim (see (visit link) (visit link) and (visit link)

N 39° 09.793 W 105° 06.475
The Robert Hauk Milk House was built in 1860 on land belonging to the Araphoe Indians. The reservation is recognized here as a sovereign nation. The house was then dismantled, moved and restored in Longmont, Colorado in 1976. I could not find out why the milk house was so important to move in such a fashion though.

N 34° 07.547 W 118° 06.960
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This Japanese house was built in the early 1900's in Japan and was dismantled and shipped to Pasadena, California and then shortly after, dismantled again and moved in The Huntington. This Japanese garden was a gift from Henry Huntington to his wife. The Japanese House was the final touch to the Japanese Garden he had built for her on their estate. This garden is the most mature (many of the plants being over a century old) of its kind in the United States. The Huntington Library is located in San Marino, California. In addition to its world famous Library, the Huntington has various themed gardens, and impressive art collections.

GeoCache now, die later!

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