Video exhibits 139-year-old Victorian home in San Francisco transfer to new handle
A 139 year old Victorian house in San Francisco finally has a new address.
On Sunday the Englander House, a historic building in the heart of the Golden City, was loaded onto giant dollys and transported from 807 Franklin St. to 635 Fulton St.
Videos and photos showed the beautiful greenhouse moving – at a constant rate of a mile per hour – to its new location six blocks away.
Hundreds of onlookers admire and photograph this huge relic from San Francisco’s past.
A man watches from a balcony as a truck pulls a Victorian home through San Francisco on February 21, 2021. The house, built in 1882, was relocated to a new location about six blocks away to make room for a condominium.Noah Berger / AP
Phil Joy, a seasoned relocation worker who oversaw the move, told the San Francisco Chronicle that it took several years to plan the quarter mile of the home.
“We had to get 15 different city agencies to agree,” Joy said, according to the newspaper.
Joy said the move was difficult because the house was 25 meters long. He added that part of the trail would be downhill.
A truck pulls a Victorian house through San Francisco on February 21, 2021. The house, built in 1882, was relocated to a new location about six blocks away to make room for a condominium.Noah Berger / AP
Tim Brown, a San Francisco realtor who owned the six-bedroom home, paid about $ 400,000 in moving costs and fees, the Chronicle reported.
An eight-story apartment complex with 48 units is to be built on the old property on which the house stood, the newspaper reported. The Englander Haus is now being combined into a 17-unit building with an old morgue next door at the new location.
