November 22nd - Excuse me, there is a house blocking the road! On Saturday after Brandon's basketball game, we drove downtown so I could show the kids the house in the middle of the road. They relocated this old house in order to save it from being demolished due to the Springfield Clinic expansion. It started off as an interesting story with the house being moved through town. Now the story has changed into a political hot potato. The city helped pay for part of the move, and the mayor was asking for more funds to complete the move to the new location. An old building was demolished to create the new home for it and there is not a foundation built yet for the house. It has to be off the wheels it is on now within 30 days, but now the funding for the foundation is in jeopardy. There have been many stories in the SJ-R on the house (October 7th, October 9th, November 11th, November 19th, November 21st, November 22nd). I've added two videos from the newspaper on the preparation of the move and the actual move below my pictures.
Video of the preparation of the move.
Video of the move to the new location.
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