Name: Two-story house moves from Main Street to Oak Street, March 24, 2005
Start: 2005-03-24
End: 2005-03-24
Location: Beaver Island

Event

Date: 2005-03-24
Kind: Transportation
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: housingconstructiontransportationinfrastructurecommunity
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

On March 24, 2005, a two-story blue-gray house moved from Main Street to a new Oak Street site, traveling less than 1,000 feet in nearly four hours. Jim Wojan and the Gillespie crew used loaders, a trailer, chains, hydraulic suspension, and careful tree trimming to negotiate the route.

Evidence limits

The feature describes the move and the house’s layered construction history but does not provide a complete property or building record.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, April 2005, "A House on the Move."
Reports a two-story blue-gray house moving less than 1,000 feet from Main Street to Oak Street over nearly four hours using loaders and Robert Gillespie''s trailer. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, April 2005, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held issue scan confirms the house move and photographs.
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Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Two-story house moves from Main Street to Oak Street, March 24, 2005”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-house-move-main-street-oak-street-march-24-2005/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, April 2005, "A House on the Move." (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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