• @[email protected]
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    721 year ago

    “They just do not build houses like this anymore” which is a shame, because you will have to try

  • @WhiteOakBayou
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    701 year ago

    "Who will pay me $500k to demolish my house? "

    • @Gregorech
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      361 year ago

      It might be cheaper to hire an architect to walk it and sketch out a new set of blueprints, rebuild it somewhere else.

      • @Astroturfed
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        51 year ago

        If they were giving the house away it might make sense, but ya this is insane.

  • @Depress_Mode
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    641 year ago

    You can’t just casually mention that the whole house has to be moved to another location and not even say why.

    • @[email protected]
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      641 year ago

      I assume a rich asshole bought it, assuming he could demolish it, found out it is protected, and is now trying to pass the relocation costs on to some other rich asshole. I don’t even see how this place can be moved though, it looks like masonry on a slab.

      • @Ilovethebomb
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        151 year ago

        Relocating concrete floor buildings has been done before, but it’s certainly not easy, and probably not cost effective.

  • celeste
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    191 year ago

    There’s some speculation in the comments on this site that the American Battlefield Trust purchased it as part of an effort to preserve a historic battlefield location in Princeton. So they don’t want to be destroying other historic stuff, I guess?

    • paper_clip
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      131 year ago

      I love this bit from the description:

      While currently located within the Princeton Public School district, the municipality where the house is moved will determine where students will attend public schools.

      As if some people may assume the school zoning would follow the physical house where ever it gets relocated. It’s one of those lines that gets added to the description because someone asked that question in the past.

  • @[email protected]
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    151 year ago

    At first I was thinking this is a great price for a historically important home in Princeton, and you can actually get land pretty cheap a little bit north in Hunterdon County, but jeez, what would it cost to relocate and update that house?!

    • Bizarroland
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      91 year ago

      I think there’s a good chance that with proper structural bracing an Apache helicopter could be used to haul chunks of it to its new location yeah but you’re looking at maybe a quarter million dollars, maybe a little less if you own the construction company that’s moving it.

    • Neuromancer
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      41 year ago

      You would need fuck you money to afford to buy the house and move it.

      I bet the whole project would be over a million. Your also have to buy land and prep it as well.

  • Flying Squid
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    91 year ago

    Sure, I’ll just hook it up to the trailer hitch.