An entire house was moved one block to San Francisco on February 21, 2021. -

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A more than surprising scene occurred this Sunday morning in San Francisco.

An entire house was moved from street to street, transported on a huge truck, reports the 

San Francisco Chronicle

.

The large 139-year-old Victorian mansion has been relocated six blocks from its former location.

The land on which it stood was sold to a real estate developer but it was out of the question to destroy the mint green house, with its typical American city architecture.

Its not everyday you see a 140-year-old two-story Victorian moving down the street in San Francisco.

The house is being moved from 807 Franklin Street to 635 Fulton Street.

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- CarlosAvilaGonzalez (@CAGisMe) February 21, 2021

A move to $ 400,000

The operation began early in the morning.

The house was loaded onto a truck under the watchful eye of engineers and workers.

The heavy truck then drove off, never driving above 1.6 km / h.

Along the way, many signs had been moved and workers had to cut tree branches to avoid damaging the house, 

HuffPost said

.

This really is quite something.

A Victorian house in San Francisco


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- James Clayton (@ JamesClayton5) February 21, 2021

This impressive move, which cost the modest sum of $ 400,000, had been planned for years.

"We had to get permission from 15 different agencies in the city, or maybe 18, I don't remember," the man in charge of the project told the 

San Francisco Chronicle

.

A two-story Victorian house in San Francisco has been loaded onto giant dollies and moved six blocks.

Onlookers lined the sidewalks to snap photos as the 139-year-old structure rolled at a top speed of 1 mph.

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- AP West Region (@APWestRegion) February 21, 2021

On the former land of the house, the developer will now build an eight-storey building containing 48 apartments.

The Victorian house, for its part, reached its new address without a hitch.

The building will need major work before it can be inhabited again.

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