I was in the neighborhood recently and checked on the progress of the “one dollar house,” a 1916 Sears kit house that was purchased for one dollar and moved to Sequim last October. It came by barge, then pulled by truck up a hill and along local roads to the site shown above. Click here for more about its October journey.
I revisited last December to find that the house had a solid new concrete masonry unit or “CMU” foundation, shown here. The house is now surrounded by an orange construction fence and it doesn’t look as if much is going on. But I was able to take a peek at the back of the house, above. It looks as if the next steps will be more CMU to form the foundation for a back deck. Similar rebar has been sunk in front for a possible porch and entry access.
It seems to be taking a bit of time Kay.. could be a financial hold up I guess.
It’s looking good. And as I recall you thought the cost of moving it and fixing it up would be worth the effort. I do wonder what the interior looks like.
Interesting progress. Maybe things will speed up once spring arrives.
Still a lot of work to do on it, I expect.
It’s nice to see the progress moving along. I wonder how much the owner had to pay to move it there. It must have been pretty expensive.
More houses are moved than one would expect. But this is a very long and complicated move. Will be fun to follow your posts and to see its progress.