Victorian brick house on wheels

In this photo house movers are in the process of hauling this big brick house out of its original location to start about a one mile journey to its new location. They lost a few bricks from the chimney in the process but made the move without one wall crack.

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dont see why they need to mvoe it???

Why not knock it down?

Shame on you! You struck a raw nerve with that comment. Aetna Insurance Company (big buildings in the background) wanted to do just that for more parking. Local preservationists (including yours truly) fought demolition for about two years to save this beauty. I would have thought that someone from England could appreciate the preservation of older buildings. I've seen enough of UK to believe there is plenty of interest there in saving your grand architecture, from farmhouses to castles and everything in between.

Here is the house in its final location.

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Pretty cool. Older home and things need to be preserved.

that is just amazing

yeah thats pretty frikkin amazing too ... I cant even move a couch without hurtin myself

G'Day.
The movers must really have known what they were doing, because that house must weigh an awful lot...not something I'd like to try. Must have been a jaw dropping sight to see it moving along the road .

Reminds me of one day a few years ago when I got stopped at an intersection in Burbank by an apartment building driving down the street. The thing was huge, and there must have been a dozen trucks involved in the process!

Here are some more shots of the move:

Passing in front of St. Joseph's Cathedral. The top of the steeple is 370 feet above ground level. I used a Sigma 12-24 to get this shot, which severely distorts the image. Check out the photographer in the foreground trying to get a good angle.

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Great series of shots Jim, real impressive move. I remember reading about that. We had to move a Church in Windsor once for a road widening, Moved it to Bloomfield. One way to get rid of Non taxable property

"An easy job" ... crikey, that's some engineering to do without cracking a single wall !

G'Day
It looks like it was quite an effort to move.
Just a couple of things - why do the workers not have saftey helmets ?
And how did they get it onto the wheels ? Did they just burrow under it or something. !

If they considered this easy, whats hard ? The Empire State Bulding !

Its simply amazing what engineers can do now days

what happens the foundations ?

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what happens the foundations ?

Once the house was jacked up, its original stone foundations were removed. After the house was moved, the hole was filled in and paved over for parking. A lot of nice old buildings around the big insurance companies were demolished for parking. This is one of the few that survived to live in a new neighborhood.

Jim