Old House Makes 4-Hour 80-Foot Move

By: Associated Press | NBC4i.com
Published: May 21, 2009

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STREETSBORO, Ohio -- A four-hour move has given one of the oldest houses in northeast Ohio a new home 80 feet away.

The Singletary House in Streetsboro, near Akron, was lifted onto a truck bed and taken Tuesday to a spot where a new foundation is being completed. Retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc. paid nearly three quarters of the $145,000 cost of moving the white, wood-frame home away from the planned location of a new Wal-Mart and other stores.

The Singletary House was built between 1826 and 1828 in the center of Streetsboro by Col. John Curtis Singletary, a Revolutionary War veteran. A woman in her 70s who owned the home
donated it to the Streetsboro Heritage Foundation three years ago.

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