Back in the day my grandfather and I jacked up the house and repaired the foundation.
He was a boilermaker :-)
I was astounded that we could actually lift the whole house with those jacks and beams...didn’t even crack the drywall :-)
The house I was born in had been jacked up to allow an addition including a basement. It was done about 1950-1956.
He was a blaster for anthracite coal mines, and the land was basically shale. My father, the new SIL, helped remove the material wheelbarrow by wheelbarrow.
Maybe it was half a cellar. Been a while since the last time I was there. Long since sold.
No idea if anything got cracked in the process.