River City Structural Movers

Close calls on the first leg of our East 3rd St move. Going through downtown Austin at 11:00 pm on a Friday is not ideal but we were successful. .gibbs.52687 and Primoso were excellent as usual.

The roof came down on our E 3rd St move, today. Many delays but we are ready to move the main structure finally.
As always, Primoso and .gibbs.52687 were excellent.

The Caretaker's Cottage is secured to her new foundation and ready for restoration.

I found this old photo of from 2012 when we were reatoring the Dedrick Hamilton house, part of the Austin African American Cultural and Heritage Center. I have had the fortune of working with this man for nearly 13 years. The irony of this photo is that this photo was taken before I took over River City Structural Movers. If you had told Juan and me that one day we would be running the show, we would have called you a liar.
It's been a wild ride.

We lifted a large house in Rockport to allow for a new foundation. helped us with some new plates on our long steel to accommodate a new idea on steel interchangeability.
.gibbs.52687 Primoso were all on point.
We even had a guest appearance from Big Papa.

Historic outbuilding relocated to front of the property at in downtown Austin. Our sister company will begin restoration when it is set on its new foundation.

Client Had a permit to build. They built it. Austin Energy said it was in their easement. We had to lift it out of the ground and move forward 8 feet. Slab and all, the Hombres did it. So smooth and well executed by the team.
.gibbs.52687 and Primoso.

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We are relocating the Palm House back to its original location in Old Settlers Park in Round Rock. We are working with our sister company to perform conservation work on the chimney and windows to insure a seamless transition during the relocation.
.gibbs.52687 and are going the good work.

A ca.1850 garden Folly we moved from a site in Bastrop to our sister company's site, , project site in Bastrop.once on site it will be restored and modified to move around the property for different events.
.gibbs.52687 and Primoso made ut look easy. The mule helped too.

Found some old photos of the Norwood House Project. We moved her onto the original location of the house. When we were drilling the new piers we found the old foundation corners and and knew exactly where to pour. I do hope this landmark gets the restoration she deserves

This was a small house with a very technical move. It was on the side of a hill on Bouldin Creek and had to get moved 65 feet on site, down a hill and onto the new foundation 9 feet in the air. Los Hombres brought the fuego. .gibbs.52687 and Primoso were tip top.

This is a project that our sister company recently completed. James Nolan Construction
O'Connell Architecture did an incredible job on the design and oversight.

Should be a fun cabana to slide over 60 feet, down a hill and onto new foundation.

Second piece headed from Round Top to Fayetteville. We had a sliver of dry weather to move this and as soon as we got to Fayetteville, the bottom dropped out. Now, we wait for the sites to dry up.

This is a project we have worked with GNDC for over 2 years. We have moved several structures for GNDC and are happy to have helped with this. The Lopez is, literally, the last outpost on this block.

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This house will be separated into three sections and moved from Round Top, TX to Fayetteville, TX. We will re frame a new roof with better ceiling height and more living space.
.gibbs.52687 moving and shaking

The Lopez House is safe and sound. Until, we move it back to 9th St in 2 years.
.gibbs.52687 and Primoso did the impossible again

One of the last board and batten homes left in Creedmoor we moved for TDS. We always enjoy working on their site because it is so vast and we get to see rhinos and camels.

Lopez House.

The heat and dust in central Texas is relentless these last few months. At least another month to go. and .gibbs.52687 getting or previous site clear of concrete and waste debris. helped with trucking haul off.

The Lopez House is, literally, the house from Up. It sits in the midst of development and one block from the French Legation museum in 9th St in downtown Austin. Thousands pass it on I35 everyday and do not notice it. We will be relocating, temporarily, to a GNDC development site in east Austin. A new affordable housing tower will be built and we will bring her back to her site. Such a unique journey for a unique house.

We moved this large specimen around yesterday on it's site.

Different perspective of the cabin we moved in Wimberley. Steep and unforgiving.

Getting some roofless sections of a house ready for many inches of rain.

Very tight site conditions on our next move.

House we moved from East Riverside Dr to Bastrop set up and looking proper. Super tight lot shapes at both sites made this a fun one. Beam skates made it look easy, though. .gibbs.52687 and Primoso.

This is a nonconforming garage structure we lifted in Hyde Park. The structure could not be rebuilt in place due to modern setbacks and easements. The extreme measures utilized to save the structure were necessary to keep the valuable square footage intact. We harvested all the original board and batten Siding and windows for restoration and reinstall.

Finished photo of the house we moved from Elizabeth St to Bastrop. I was told that the main section was the oldest house left in Bouldin Crwek area of Austin.

We got the 2nd piece of our Eastside Dr. house to Wimberley. The site is a stunner. .gibbs.52687 and Primoso had alot of patience on this one. Permitting and weather were big challenges.

skates were a critical help.