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 Post subject: San Francisco Streetcar Bodies in Houses
PostPosted: Mon Mar 24, 2014 12:59 am 

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Every once in a while the topic of car bodies surviving in houses comes up here. I found this article from 1996 while cleaning. Pre-internet, I bet many of you have never seen it.

What is the status of these houses today?

See the article at this link:

http://www.a2analytics.com/Preservation%201996%20SF%20Streetcar%20Body%20Houses%20.pdf


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 Post subject: Re: San Francisco Streetcar Bodies in Houses
PostPosted: Mon Mar 24, 2014 2:24 am 

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A book about San Francisco's "Carville" was also published a few years ago.

The book's web site has some notes about other uses of car bodies in houses and businesses:

http://www.carville-book.com/bonus.php


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 Post subject: Re: San Francisco Streetcar Bodies in Houses
PostPosted: Mon Mar 24, 2014 12:39 pm 

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Two streetcar bodies probably from Market Street Railway or predecessor were built into a house in Belmont CA. The house had been expanded around them so no sign of the streetcar bodies was visible outside the house. This house has been torn down and nothing from the bodies was saved. There's no telling how many of these sorts of houses may still exist today.

I saw the inside of this house when I was invited to dinner by a person who lived there who worked at the same place I did.


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 Post subject: Re: San Francisco Streetcar Bodies in Houses
PostPosted: Wed Mar 26, 2014 2:49 pm 

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Not that unusual. At least one streetcar was built into a house here in Tucson. Old Pueblo Trolley is aware of that and has plans to preserve the car, should the property be offered for sale.

Something a little more unusual is the Baptist Chapel Car that has been built into the Baptist Church at Rawlings, Wyoming. According to research, the Baptists had plans as to how to convert/incorporate a car into a permanent church building. One suggestion was to split the body of the car down the middle, but I am not aware that that was actually done.

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