PHASE 1 Funding
Phase 1 of Stabilizing the Methodist Church and the Fouke Residence is paying for a structural engineer to create plans, so we can put a project out to bid.
We are looking for $50,000 for this initial phase.
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The Methodist Church has started to lean significantly to the right, and backward as well. Perhaps one of the most prominent buildings in Bodie, the church needs to be righted.
If you walk down Green Street and take a right on Wood Street, two houses down is the Fouke. It has great front porch (what’s left of it) and the wall facing the rest of town has begun to bulge. Historicorps attempted emergency stabilization on this building last year. However, due to the original construction of this building and its subsequent additions, and the fact that it’s missing a roof, it is in need of substantial work, and quickly, before we lose the entire building.
