Hi all,
I've been excavating at a house museum site this summer and we have found a
small (6 by 10 ft) brick floored building with substantial stone
foundations, attached corner to corner with the main house.  The outbuilding
floor is a bit below grade, and we are speculating that it's a dairy.

The house museum is looking for options and technical information about ways
that they might preserve the feature in place or incorporate it into their
new addition (a classroom and archival ell that they are planning to build
in the same area).  They are also interested in hearing if anyone has any
examples of moving something like this and rebuilding it elsewhere.  They
are at the brainstorming stage right now.

Any pointers to references for ideas, examples of other ways this has been
done, or technical info about preservation strategies are appreciated,
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A photo of the partially exposed floor can be seen here:
http://blogs.umb.edu/fiskecenter/2011/06/23/the-durant-kenrick-dairy/

Sincerely,
Christa