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Originally Posted by belmont bob
So I’m not sure if the very old buildings of Bunker Hill could have weathered long enough to where their value as a structure was as important as the value of the bare land. Having seen some of those places first-hand as a teenager, I’m not convinced that in their dilapidated state they could have survived.
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Don't sell Victorian structures short. They were very well-built, in my experience considerably sounder in structure than your average Craftsman. Victorians were typically built light and stiff, naturally resistant to the twisting movements that often tear structures apart in earthquakes.
Our own Victorian was a derelict, at least as bad in appearance as any of the Bunker Hill structures. Ours didn't even have a foundation, just cripple walls sitting right on the ground. And yet, it survived a century of the worst Ma Nature could throw at it with the main structure completely intact.