{"id":738,"date":"2015-09-07T17:35:04","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T17:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/?p=738"},"modified":"2015-09-09T17:51:26","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T17:51:26","slug":"the-leaning-tower-of-upper-fells-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/?p=738","title":{"rendered":"The Leaning Tower of Upper Fells Point"},"content":{"rendered":"

150 year old housing stock has its drawbacks. \u00a0Sometimes the roof goes and that leads to brick problems, sometimes the foundation\u00a0goes\u00a0first and the rest has to come down, but sometimes its just the soil it is built on slowly giving way. \u00a0One of our favorite houses to take friends to see was what we called The Leaning Tower of Upper Fells Point. \u00a0This 3 story row house had, over the years, sunken in and would have fallen onto its downhill neighbor had some brick buttresses not been built to support it. \u00a0This seems to have occured decades earlier because even the Formstone has been applied level relative to the tilt.<\/p>\n

Sadly, whoever owns that lot has better plans than preserving this oddity. \u00a0The demolition notice has been posted since June. \u00a0One day biking home I decided to see if it was still standing\u00a0only to find the demolition in progress.<\/p>\n

\"leaningTowerDemo1\"<\/a>By the following day\u00a0this was all that was left.<\/p>\n

\"tilthousedemo\"<\/a>That’s not the end though. \u00a0We had an eye on this since the demolition notice was posted for one reason. \u00a0This house was 12′ wide and would therefore have longer joists than most other houses in the neighborhood.\u00a0Just the length we needed for our last shelf. \u00a0I hauled one out just after this photo was taken and after a little work we had our shelf. \u00a0A small reminder of our 2nd favorite house in Upper Fells Point.<\/p>\n

\"DSC_3303\"<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

150 year old housing stock has its drawbacks. \u00a0Sometimes the roof goes and that leads to brick problems, sometimes the …<\/p>\n

Continue reading »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-build","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":742,"href":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions\/742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.formstonecastle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}