Paul, The best I can recommend is the Cypress Freeway project (I-880) in West Oakland done for CalTRANS by Mary & Adrian Praetzellis http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/env/cultural/arch/ It includes an entire chapter (Ch 4) on Victorian era bric-a-brac http://www.sonoma.edu/asc/cypress/finalreport/part2.htm Meli Diamanti A&HC