Bringing Down the Linzy House on June 21
 On Saturday, June 21,
the Wakulla Heritage Project will be “bringing down the house,” the
Ross and Amy Linzy house. Stop by any time between 8:30 am and 4:30 pm
to watch the demolition. The action will take place across the street
from Wal-Mart. Better yet, bring a donation (see items needed below)
or volunteer to help.
The Wakulla Heritage project needs a dozen
volunteers to help on Saturday. Beginning at 8:30 am, 3-4 experienced
carpenters are needed to help disassemble the house. (Carpenters
should bring their own tools.) At 9:30 am, 4 volunteers are needed to
start loading wood and tin onto trucks for transport. At 10:00 am, an
unloading team of 4 volunteers is needed to unload and stack these
materials at their destination. All volunteers should bring and wear
work gloves and work shoes. To volunteer to help, please call Jim
Calhoun at 926-6067 (office, leave message if not in) or 933-7448
(cell).
Between 8:30 am and 12:30 pm, the work crew will brace
the house, then remove the roofing, trusses, and porch roof. Workers
will first tie the exterior walls together and brace the house, then
remove the partition wall. Using scaffolding and security ropes, two
workers will mount the roof to remove the roof cap and two sheets of
tin. Then the remainder of the tin roofing will be removed. Finally
the front porch roof will be dropped and cut into two.
 Between
12:30 am and 4:30 pm, the work crew will remove the walls and floors.
First, the wall sections in the back room will be braced, divided, and
let fall. After removing the back room flooring and joists, eight wall
sections of the main house will be braced, divided, and let fall.
Lastly, the main house floor and joists will be cut into 2 sections.
To
support this work on the Linzy house on June 21, please donate any of
the following: 1) Regular gasoline (up to 25 gallons) in 1-5 gallon
containers to fuel the transport truck and equipment, 2) Boxes of wood
screws in 2 1/2', 3', and 3 1/2' sizes, or 3) Whole or partial sheets
of plywood (1/2'x 4'x8'). In addition, loans of bracing timbers
(4'x4'x 8' or longer) are needed just for the day. Please let Jim
Calhoun know what you plan to bring by calling 926-6067 (office) or
933-7448 (cell) before June 21.
Once the house is dismantled and
moved, it will be carefully reconstructed and repaired. Then it will
wait to join a dozen other historic homes at the Heritage Park that
will be built in Medart. There it will offer a glimpse into a long
gone way-of-life. Newlyweds Ross and Amy Linzy built this 2-room house
in 1930 and lived in it with no electricity, running water, or indoor
plumbing. As their family grew to include 4 children, they converted
the back porch into a second bedroom. About 1938, they added a
kitchen, dining room, and pantry onto one side. They survived by
farming, raising chickens and hogs, and hauling fish to sell. Later
they worked for various employers, then in the 1950s, built and ran
their own small grocery store where Wal-Mart’s gas pumps now stand.
To
support the work of the Wakulla Heritage project, please send a
tax-deductible donation to: Wakulla County Historical Society (for
Heritage Project), P.O. Box 151, Crawfordville, FL 32326. For more
information, contact Betty Green at 926-7405 or
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This article originally published on June 16, 2008.
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