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Houses and Buildings that were moved
Houses and Buildings that were moved
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Perry401
125 posts
Feb 21, 2013
7:31 AM
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Today, houses and other buildings are rarely moved in our throw-away market. In reality, moving a house or other building might be one of the best examples of "recycling". There was a time, not too long ago when houses and even commercial buildings were often moved.
In most cases the moves were made because the cost was less than a new building. Today, the costs associated with closing streets, trimming trees, relocating or shutting down electric, phone, cable, and RTA wiring can be expensive. Modern building moves require extensive permit processes which can require detailed assesments of potential damage to streets, business activities, etc. In some cases public hearings must be held and input from those along the travel route must be addressed. There also is the cost for insurance.
Modern construction techniques make some buildings harder to move. "Slab" houses, for example are almost never moved since the floor is a concrete slab that is left at the old building site.
Besides the buildings moved for Carillon Park, here are a few other houses and groups of homes that have been moved.
A house on the East side of Wayne Ave. just north of Wyoming was moved about a block to a vacant lot on a side street West of Wayne Ave. "around" 1995-2000. The actual path the house took was about 5 blocks, going down South Park and around various back-streets.
The house at the North East corner of Shroyer Road and Lincoln Park was moved to a side street (Claybourne Rd)location just east of Marshall. This occured when Lincoln Park was developed as an actual park. I have been told that other houses on the old Lincoln Park "dead end" East of Shroyer were moved, but do not have any personnal knowledge of this.
The house now used by the Greene County Museum in Xenia was moved about a block when a senior citizen apartment was built at the old site.
A number of houses along the West side of Woodman Drive near US 35 were moved in the 1960's when Woodman Drive was widened. These moves simply slid the houses further back on existing lots. Some houses were moved, others were torn down and replacements built.
I have been told that some of the better houses in east Dayton were moved when US 35 was built, but can find nobody who has any further information on specific homes or their current location.
A few houses in Belmont, just off Watervliet were moved only a few feet and turned slightly in the early 1900's. Originally the area was platted with streets runing with square corners off Watervliet. Houses were built along these street alignments. Later, a bend was put on the side streets so they were square with Wayne Ave instead. The houses were moved to new locations on the now bent streets. Nill street for the first half block or so off Watervliet did not have this improvement, and now the houses sit along the old street alignment with a strange double street and odd sidewalk alignment.
There was a nursery at the current location of the Brietenstater shopping center. The farm house associated with this business was moved to a side street just east of the old site when the shopping center was built.
Several houses in New Burlington, OH and part of a church were moved when Caesers Creek Lake and the associated dam were built in the early 1970's. The old town site was in the lake's flood plain. The five or six buildings were moved up the hill to Cemetary Road and the new "neighborbood" was named "Burlington Heights" by the Army Corp of Engineers.
Last Edited by Perry401 on Feb 21, 2013 7:32 AM
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Syxpack
52 posts
Feb 21, 2013
10:12 AM
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Wonderful info Perry. Loved reading it. There's a huge brick home here in Knollwood that the old-time neighbors remember being moved here in the '50's or '60's. It is huge and I can't imagine it coming down any street, but there was a lot of farmland around at that time.
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luv my dayton
240 posts
Feb 21, 2013
6:42 PM
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At the foot of Linden and Huffman was a service station that originally was my grandfathers. It began as a drive way with pumps along side their house. He wanted the entire corner but the guy on the corner wouldn't sell him the property so gramps had the house moved around the corner and is still there on Findley street. In place of the house grandpa built a service station and it remained there for many decades. It sat empty for a few years and then in early 90's the small church bought the property and turned it into a parking lot where they now have the entire corner.
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