Everything you need to know about historic homes, from where to find vintage wallpaper to renovation advice to the logistics of moving them.

Courtesy of Wolfe House & Building Movers.
This church was moved in Springfield, MA to make way for new development.

Welcome back to Period Dramas, a weekly column that alternates between roundups of historic homes on the market and answering questions we?ve always had about older structures.
The sight of a house freed from its foundation and rolling down the road is not one we usually associate with stability. But?as we at Curbed are well aware?the task of moving a house is not an uncommon one. Houses are moved for a variety of reasons, from providing the building with a better plot of land to saving it from demolition. Sometimes, the houses being moved are relatively modern. We recently covered a ski home that was slung across Telluride. Other times, the buildings are historic?like Chicago's Harriet F. Rees house, which we reported on quite extensively when it was moved two years ago. Counter to our expectations, moving a historic house isn?t the most delicate?or limiting?procedure. "As far as a route can be provided that will fit the house down the street, we can figure out a way to move it," says Mike Brovont of Wolfe House & Building Movers.
Brovont, who grew up around people in the house-moving business and has spent his whole career transporting structures, went on to explain t...