Like in the movie Up: he wanted to move a house to another neighborhood and took it complete

In 2013, a US citizen sold his house for US $ 2.6 million to a real estate development company who also bought the nearby vacant lot. The plan? Make condos on both lots. So far everything seems normal … but it turns out the house was 139 years old and was built in the Victorian era. It happened in the city of San Francisco where the old houses are preserved and very appreciated. This is why the company did not want to demolish the house and start the work, but instead tried to find a solution to have the land without the house. During all this time, they conducted many negotiations and planned to free the land without demolition and with him full house transfer to another part of town. During this maneuver, the neighbors’ videos went viral and recalled the hit Disney movie, Up.

The green house of 570 m², What walked and scrolled six blocks through Golden Gate City from Franklin Street to Fulton Street to get to your destination, she was accompanied by the spectators who were surprised by the move.

The property was custom designed by German architect Wildrich Winterhalter in 1882, it comprises six bedrooms and three bathrooms on two levels. In the 1990s it was bought by a man who lived there until 2013 when he declared bankruptcy and the house changed hands to the developer interested in building a complex. eight-storey apartments and 48 functional units.

During the move, the help of a team of various professionals was necessary because they had to remove the parking meters, part of the public lighting and some power lines. Known as Englander House, the house took six hours to do the six blocks. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the owner spent $ 400,000 in fees and expenses to move the historic home. It was essential to take it out to start the real estate project.

The transfer of ownership is not the first seen in the city. The last reported move to relocate residents who resided in the Victorian era occurred in the same neighborhood in November 1974, when 12 houses were moved. located in Opera Plaza, at 600 Van Ness Avenue, near Beideman Place.

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