Earlier this year, I wrote out Lassen County’s so-called Mobile Home Culture. It was about instead of demolishing a structure, it was moved to a new location. You can read the story here.
Our neighbor to north in Alturas, took moving a building to the extreme. First a little background. In December 1908, the NCO Railroad finally made its way to Alturas. One would think the residents would be thrilled. That was not necessarily the case, since the NCO had increased its freight rates, it had a chilling effect.
The NCO built a stone passenger depot on 12th Street, far from everything else in town. The residents complained. To appease the situation, the railroad carefully disassembled the stone depot, numbering each stone, and once dismantled the stones were reassembled at the new location on Fourth Street. The depot closed in 1938, and in 1962, the Alturas Garden Club took over the property and still maintains it.