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Wednesday, November 12, 2014

126-year-old Chicago mansion weighing 1,000 tons moved 600-feet across the block over the course of two days

 The house was encased in a steel frame and raised onto 32 massive motorized dollies for the 600-foot move
It has stood on Chicago's historic South Prairie Avenue since 1888, but on Tuesday Nov 11,2014 the Harriet Rees Mansion began a two-day trek just one block north, or 600 feet away.
 Inching: Crews watch as the Harriet Rees House, a three-story, Chicago mansion built in 1888, is moved slowly to a new location from the historic Prairie Avenue to make room for redevelopment
Making way for a new university basketball arena, the mansion was moved atop a huge array of automated dollies, crawling and inching at one-half-foot per second on 250 wheels.
The house was encased in a steel frame and raised onto 32 massive motorized dollies for the 600-foot move. With a top speed of about one half foot per second, the move is expected to take two days

Weighing more than 1,000 tons, the three-story brick house is 95-feet long, 25-feet wide and 72-feet wide and one of the last residential remnants of the Gilded Age in the Windy City.

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