Moving a House on Eastlake

Monday, June 5th, 2006

This past Saturday night the last residental home on Eastlake Ave E was moved off of its lot, thru a parking lot, and onto a barge. The Seattle PI has a photo slideshow of the event as well as an article. So, in short, this is what is going on:

The yellow, 3,000- square-foot house had been lifted and then rolled on a dolly with wheels as big as airplane tires from the spot where it had sat since 1908 (since before there was even an Eastlake Avenue East), down to within a hundred feet from where a barge waited to carry it to the San Juan Islands.

Pretty dang impressive if you ask me. It was a huge house and there wasn’t a lot of space to move it.

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One Response to “Moving a House on Eastlake”

  1. Jamie Says...
    On June 5th, 2006 at 10:34 pm #

    Yeah, it was so crazy to see it even on the barge. This one is my favorite photo from the article.

    Where are the photos that you took the night it was moved?

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