At the Shore, “houses are always getting demolished to make nicer, bigger houses,' Steve Hauck says. But those two- and three-bedroom ranch houses often fit nicely 20 or 30 miles inland. So instead of tearing them down, his company relocates the homes.
that required dismantling the house in sections, and a Mamaroneck, N.Y., move that involved cutting a house into nine pieces because the route it had to travel on was “too tight,” Hauck said., a longtime Wildwood landmark, to Upper Township in June. That operation, performed on a 1960s A-frame, involved cutting off the triangular top.
Pomona Union Protestant Church sold the property because its membership had dwindled over the years as the surrounding area developed, said Pat Scamoffa, trustee and treasurer. “Since COVID, we haven’t had a service,” she said. “Before that, we met about three times a year.” Smithville is an “ideal” location for the move, Fishman said, as it has a cluster of buildings that fit with the church.House moving isn’t a new trend at the Shore. Visitors might not know it, but several Victorian-era buildings aren’t in their original locations. Cape May’s Angel of the Sea bed and breakfast, for example, was moved in 1881 and then again in 1962.
Moving a house as opposed to demolishing it benefits the environment, Hauck said. The average house weighs 60,000 pounds, so if the company moves 25 of them a year, “that’s 1.5 million pounds of debris we save from going to a landfill,” he said.
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