Great Barrington — The “flying church,” as the former United Methodist Church building on Main Street across from Rite Aid has come to be known, is coming back to earth. Construction on the Main Street historic structure is underway again. “I’ve been waiting all winter for this,” declared Paul Joffe of GB Historic Preservation LLC,
The earliest recorded moving of a house in Great Barrington is in 1793, when the town no longer needed its old courthouse, which stood in front of present Town Hall, and Captain Walter Pynchon moved it across the street to behind the Wheeler & Taylor office.
“It make look precarious, but believe it or not, the building is now more stable, sitting on those cribbing pillars, than it was before.
— Redeveloper Paul Joffe, of GB Historic Renovations
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