Saved from the wrecking ball, an early house designed by the PritzkerPrize winning architect Robert Venturi known as the Lieb House, made ahistoric journey last week from its original site in the New Jerseybeach community of Barnegat Light to its new home in Glen Cove, LongIsland. The trip was no ordinary journey, as the house traveled 75miles by barge across the Atlantic Ocean through New York Harbor up theEast River and into the Long Island Sound before reaching its finaldestination. The trip, which took 20 hours to complete, attracted athrong of onlookers, including Mr. Venturi, who viewed the event fromNew York’s South Street Seaport.
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