A crew member from T&T House Moving runs to catch up with a truck as a house, originally located on 1106 NW 6th Pl., is hauled down Waldo Road in Gainesville, Fla. April 23, 2023. Its destination was 1129 NE 3rd Ave. (Rae Riiska/WUFT News)
In the early morning hours on Sunday, April 23, a house was transported by truck from 1106 NW 6th Pl., to 1129 NE 3rd Ave. The project was organized by Tyler Smith and Roberta Lopez to move the more than 100-year-old home two miles to a plot of land where Cora Peterson Roberson once lived. The house took about the same route that Roberson would take as a child to A. Quinn Jones’s Old Lincoln School. Tyler Smith says he hopes to restore the house and eventually turn it into affordable housing for the Gainesville community. The house took about an hour to transport.
Felicia Lopez-Walker takes a photo of a house being moved from 1106 NW 6th Pl. to 1129 NE 3rd Ave. in Gainesville, Fla. April 23, 2023. (Rae Riiska/WUFT News)
A house, originally located on 1106 NW 6th Pl., is moved down NE 16th Ave in Gainesville, Fla. April 23, 2023. Its destination was 1129 NE 3rd Ave. (Rae Riiska/WUFT News)
Members of the public stand on the side of the road as a house is moved from 1106 NW 6th Pl., to 1129 NE 3rd Ave. in Gainesville, Fla. April 23, 2023. (Rae Riiska/WUFT News)
A house, originally located on 1106 NW 6th Place, is hauled down Waldo Road in Gainesville, Fla. April 23, 2023. Its destination was 1129 NE 3rd Ave. (Rae Riiska/WUFT News)
Workers from T&T House Moving lay down plywood as a house on a flatbed truck is backed into an lot at 1129 NE 3rd Ave. in Gainesville, Fla. April 23, 2023. (Rae Riiska/WUFT News)
A house is backed into an lot at 1129 NE 3rd Ave. in Gainesville, Fla. April 23, 2023. (Rae Riiska/WUFT News) (Rae Riiska/WUFT News)