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Probably not many wooden roofs going up along the waterfront these days
By adamg on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 12:09am
Every day, it looks more likely that this time, the Tea Party Museum will actually reopen. On Tuesday, some roofers were busy up on, well, the roof.
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I walk by this place everyday
I walk by this place everyday going to work and it still amazes me they are using wood construction. I mean how many times does a place have to burn before they learn?
I do too
I agree, JeffT. Also, they've been at it for at least a month and barely have it framed and walled in? Where I'm from, the Amish community can construct an entire house, barn, or schoolhouse in a weekend. Then again, they don't spend most of their workdays sitting on the guardrail drinking coffee and looking at their unfinished work.
Location
The Amish aren't building over the ocean. It is a little bit different building over the water and accessible only by a bridge than it is on solid ground with room to walk around, keep building supplies readily accessible etc. In this project, I would imagine, alot of pieces have to be premanufactured off site, transported, carried down a narrow sidewalk, and then carefully put into place, all without disrupting traffic. I work in engineering, and while I agree that there are alot of contractors that are not the most efficient types, it seems that there are some unique challenges to overcome in this instance.
Nope
There is a big barge full of construction materials sitting right next to the building with a big crane to lift them onto the site. Its being built pretty much like a normal house. That said, I also regularly walk by this thing and I don't think its taken them a month to do the house part of it. The pier on which it sits took a long time, but that isn't surprising in light of the nature of that work.
I fail to see the point
I used to walk by the old museum before it burned down (the first and second times), allegedly struck by lightning (how convenient), and I don't see the point of it. It isn't where the actual "tea party" protest took place, nor was the fascimile ship the ship that was used. It is historically inaccurate. So the whole thing is like the fake "Cheers" bars that are scattered throughout the city, and dumbass tourists think they're at the real place. I might add that the old one was very univiting looking, and I seldom saw tourists there. There seem to be a lot of very suspicious fires at waterfront structures in that specific area, like the James Hook lobster place, which was then rebuilt.
Boston Tea Party museum fires
Wasn't the first one a lightning strike, and the second one an accident with a welder's torch during repairs to the Congress Street bridge?