Eastlake home sails away -- across Puget Sound

Seattle Post-Intelligencer ^ | Monday, June 5, 2006 | KERY MURAKAMI

[skeptoid]

Daphne Lee-Larson said goodbye to her house Sunday morning.

Actually, she wished it a bon voyage.

She was looking up at the second-floor bedroom window of 3218 Eastlake Ave. E. and remembered how she and her husband once had to climb up to it on a ladder when it was bedtime because they were having the ground floor resanded.

3218 Eastlake Ave. E., though, was no longer on Eastlake Avenue East.

The yellow, 3,000- square-foot house had been lifted and then rolled on a dolly with wheels as big as airplane tires from the spot where it had sat since 1908 (since before there was even an Eastlake Avenue East), down to within a hundred feet from where a barge waited to carry it to the San Juan Islands

[skeptoid]

I really enjoyed the slideshow of this unique housemoving and the article is good, too. What's the current term to describe this type of story, i.e. 'something you don't see every day'?

A tugboat pulls a barge carrying the 3,000-square-foot house across Lake Union, bound for the Ballard Locks and, ultimately, Shaw Island in the San Juans. (June 04, 2006)

Joshua Trujillo/Seattle Post-Intelligencer

[Walkenfree]

Wow, that's amazing. "Something you don't see everyday" is good; Or how about: I Think I Can, I Think I Can ?

[ken5050]

It'd be a LOT easier to just buy a houseboat..

[sionnsar]

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[Horatio Gates]

My mother in law was telling me about the house in the middle of Lake Union. She lives across the street from the house boats on the east side of the lake. I thought she was nuts. I see she was correct but imho she is still nuts.

[goodnesswins]

Well, at least they didn't choose to take it up I-5 during Rush Hour!!!

[GretchenM]

That'$ gonna co$t $omething.

[Libertina]

Cool!