Video: Shocking Truck Transfer From Huge 140-Year-Old House

A standard victorian house of 480 square meters, could be seen through the streets of the city of San Francisco, located in the north of the state of California in the United States, while being transported on a hydraulic platform with wheels pulled by a truck.

Local media and social networks Photographs and videos of the house, built in 1880, were shown during The passage which he made with the cityscape in the background.

The operation to relocate the property required the participation of many operators, cranes and other heavy machinery and was followed by curious and passers-by surprised by the situation.

So that the tour has no inconvenience, parking meters, part of public lighting and some power lines have been removed. SFGate outlet pointed out that a transfer of this style had not taken place in the North American city for more than four decades when in November 1974, 14 houses were transferred.

The Victorian house was designed by the German architect Wildrich winterhalter and sold, in 2013, to a real estate developer for $ 2.6 million, interested in building condominiums on the vacant lot next to the building.

Tim brown, owner of the house with six bedrooms and three bathrooms, assured that the house has been relocated next to another building which has hosted for over 60 years a funeral home, with the intention of preserving the two buildings.

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