Raising Funds to Save Carriage House
At 115 years old, the carriage house at the Myers House & Garden on Alameda Avenue is showing its age. The makeup applied to the outside of the structure and its new roof hides the fact that the fragile building is, well, falling apart at the seams. [caption id="attachment_1618" align="aligncenter" width="768"] Alameda Museum curator George Gunn shows the ivy that intrudes on the interior of the carriage house at the Meyers House & Garden. Photo by Dennis Evanosky.[/caption] The cornice is rotted, allowing plants to intrude into the structure,” said Alameda Museum curator George Gunn, who is spearheading a fund drive a restore this small, but important part of the Meyers House and Garden’s property. Daylight intrudes into the building in places it shouldn’t, betraying just how fragile the building…
