A 141-year-old Victorian home was picked up and moved six blocks from Franklin Street to Fulton Street. This is phenomenal to see this humungous seven-bedroom house being moved, said Wanda Ramos who lives near the home s original location.
Gary Carter lives near the new location and echoed those same thoughts. This is pretty big, pretty amazing, said Carter.
Sebastian Luke was one of the many who watched the entire move simply saying, It s a beautiful building.
And that beautiful historic building quickly took San Francisco and the internet by storm. Every angle being recorded by the hundreds of San Franciscans, many of whom compared it to the animated Pixar movie Up where a home was moved by balloons.
This San Francisco house was built in 1880 and located at 807 Franklin Street – well, until Sunday. According to media reports, its old location will now be home to.
Here s How Moving That 139-Year-Old Victorian House to 635 Fulton Street Looked Today
Unless you ve been living under a rock or practicing a digital detox odds are you ve heard about the Victorian house slated to be picked up and moved this weekend in San Francisco. Well, it has, in fact, now been relocated to its new foundation. And the pictures and videos of its journey are wild.
Back in the 70s, Victorian homes were hoisted atop wheeled trailers and moved from the Western Addition to the Fillmore District after a redevelopment plan of the former neighborhood displaced thousands of Black residents. (This forced neighborhood exodus saw some 2,500 other Victorians in the neighborhood demolished in what s still considered one of San Francisco s most egregious acts of outright gentrification.)