400 thousand dollars and 4 years in the making: in the United States was carrying the old 2‑storey mansion

A resident of San Francisco moved the 139-year-old two-storey house to a new location. The old mansion has raised a huge platform and moved six blocks away from the former "place of residence".

Home owner local broker Tim brown. In 2013, the man bought this house with six bedrooms and seven years later took to move it to a new location. Brown decided to install it on purchased six blocks of land for construction of the condominium to combine two of his possession, and then to sell it to fans of gentrification.

Local residents lined up along the road and filmed as a two-storey building with a length of 25 meters and an area of 480 square meters rolled through the streets at a speed of 1.6 km/h.

Tim brown is paid around 400 thousand dollars for the move, which had planned a few years. The difficulty lay not only in the home setting on a special platform but in the purification of the road to move. City services had to remove street lights, Parking meters, trees, and utilities, as well as to block the roadway.

The company's carrying, I had to get permission to move from 15 municipal services. The house will coexist with the old funeral home, and to his former address will construct an eight-story residential complex.