A post and beam 20'X30' Carriage House circa 1830 in Lexington, MA on the Battle Green needs to be deconstructed soon, then moved and reconstructed in a new location roughly a half mile away in the Spring of 2012.

The current owners have a contractor engaged for the rest of the project (building a new structure) and are ready to get underway. A building permit for the project is already filed. The current owners will store the disassembled carriage house for us until we're ready to rebuild it on our property (Spring 2012).

When it's rebuilt, we want to make the carriage house narrower (by decreasing the gable ends to 16' instead of the current 20'), and longer (by adding a 4' deep, 12' wide section flush to one side at the front gable end with a door wide enough for a car). We want to open the back 12' of the carriage house and make it into a screened in porch. We also want to move the staircase (to the second floor) from the carriage house back wall and add a dividing wall between what will be a garage/work area and the screened in porch.

We'd like to use reclaimed wood as much as possible, potentially from our current garage that will be torn down. We're open to ideas on how to preserve the structure as much as possible. We'll provide more details and drawings as needed. We still have to get permits and approvals required (Historic Commission, Zoning, Building...).

Photos of the building are posted at picasaweb.google.com/Tommaso.Fortmann/CarriageHouse?authuser=0&feat=directlink.

Thanks for your help. Look forward to talking with you soon.

Luis (next owner): cell phone 617-448-4602
Tom (current owner): home phone 781-861-7296
or send email to <tfguild@fortmann.org>