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> relocating an old house is a real pain Has relocating an old house even been done? (Assuming the house wasn't built to be movable.)

• jwagenet 1y ago
  Somewhat recently in SF. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/23/san-francisco-victorian-house-moved https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/23/san-francisc...
• orinatic 1y ago
  Yeah, it's a thing for a certain type of historic building. See https://patch.com/massachusetts/lexington/historic-house-move-happening-saturday-night https://patch.com/massachusetts/lexington/historic-house-mov... as an example
• WillDaSilva 1y ago
  It is done, albeit rarely due to how expensive and complex an operation it is. My friend's mother moved her house a few kilometers across some farmland. It was a rather large 2 story tall house, with a basement. It had to be moved to a plot that had a similar foundation and basement prepared for it.
• gertlex 1y ago
  As the other comments note, yep, it's been done. It seems there's a whole spectrum from lifting houses to put a new first floor below them, to moving them a bit, to moving them several blocks in a city. (to big building projects too, historically) I saw a house in progress being moved, 30 years ago. Great thing to take a kid to see!