A Tale Of Three Houses

Macon On The Move

This was the scene early Saturday, October 22, 2011 as crews removed the street signs at Coleman and Adams Street in preparation for the moving of three houses from their original location on Coleman Avenue alongside Interstate 75 near the Campus of Mercer University.

 This is the transporter for House Number One as it waited to proceed alongside the Southside of Tattnal Square Park.  You can see the Mercer University Campus in the background.

As you can determine, the streetlights had to be laid down to allow the houses to pass by.  It took a lot of coordination to have this project completed in two days.  Two days to move the houses from their location on Coleman Avenue to their new location on Oglethorpe Street.

This is a view of house number two as the crews prepared to start the move on Montpelier Avenue.

 This is a view of house number three.  I was told that this was the longest and also the heaviest house to move.

This is a view of house number one as it was parked on Ross Street waiting for Sunday to be moved to it's new location.

House number two coming around a difficult turn from Ash Street onto Ross Street .  As you can ascertain it was close quarters.

House number two did make the turn.  I can appreciate the coordination that the moving crews displayed as they used hand signals to inform the truck drivers which way to steer.

This is house number three waiting on Ash Street.  As mentioned above, this house was the longest and the heaviest.  Note the size of the truck used to pull this house.

Another view of the largest house and the largest truck.  Again, I will say that I was very impressed with the crews that conducted this move.

Here you see two endloaders.  One carrying gravel to fill areas where the curb needed to be sloped and the other with a cable to prevent the house from traveling too fast down a hill.

This is Ash Street looking back toward College Street and the entrance to Mercer University Campus.  You can ascertain that the linemen are restoring the power lines after the houses passed by.  I was very impressed with all the organizations that worked as a team to allow this move of three houses to be conducted.