Moving house
When I was in college in St. Augustine, there was a house that I’d pass regularly with a sign out front that said, “Free, You Move.” We always thought it was a joke, because the town was full of historic old houses that no one wanted to deal with. One Seattle couple, though, seems to have found such a house in Tukwila and are in the process of moving it to Columbia City right now [king5].
The house was built in 1908, and the couple bought it from Tukwila for $1 rather than see it torn down. Moving the house will cost them $150,000 along with whatever permissions they had to get, and will involve a trip across Lake Washington on a barge starting at midnight tonight. They’ll have to move around a bunch of high-tension wires and travel through four different cities. It should arrive at its final destination tomorrow.
I hope that they glued everything down before they left.
That’s almost worth a nighttime trip to Renton to watch the floating house!
Your awesome and should be proud of yourselves for recycling american heritage
Your awesome and should be proud of yourselves for recycling american heritage
Wow. They have it much harder than we did. 2 weeks ago we moved a house built in 1930 from Toledo, WA to Winlock, WA. I knew we were getting a deal paying only $6700 for the move plus another $2300 for the utility crews. The house is in miserable shape but we really feel good about it. It is really solid and, now that they are working on the foundation underneath it, we have learned that it is perfectly square. Our foundation crew said they have seen that only one other time in the last 15 years. Yeah for old fashioned work ethics and quality of workmanship I would never be able to afford in a new house.