House carried by carA unique landscape unfolded last weekend in San Francisco, USA, and caught the attention of many people.
According to the Associated Press and Mercury News on the 23rd, on the morning of the 21st (local time), a two-story house on 807 Street in Franklin was moved to 635 Street in Fulton, 6 blocks away by a large truck while maintaining its original shape.
Hundreds of spectators flocked around the road at the time, taking pictures with cameras and mobile phones, and was amazed.
Concerned about a safety accident, the police said to the crowd with a loudspeaker at the scene, “Please step back to the sidewalk. The house is coming down the street.”
This house is a large, antique building that lasted 139 years.
Built in 1882 in the English Victorian style, it has 6 bedrooms with large windows, brown front door.
The journey for the house to get a new address was not easy.
It traveled only 0.5 miles (about 800m), but it took 4 hours to move slowly because of fear of damage.
The maximum moving speed of the car with the house was 1 mile per hour (1.6 km).
In an interview with local media San Francisco Chronicle, director expert Phil Joy said it was particularly difficult going downhill.
He also explained that it went through a complicated approval process from over 15 related agencies to move the entire house by car.
Although I was careful and careful, I couldn’t avoid the situation where the trees around the road where the house was moving were cut off and the location of traffic signs changed.
The owner of the house is Tim Brown, who works as a broker in San Francisco.
According to local media, Brown will pay about $400,000 (about 440 million won) for commissions and moving expenses.
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