Neighborhood Housing Services of New Haven

• 2: About NHS
  • 2.1: Mission and Impact
  • 2.2: What We Do
  • 2.3: In the News
  • 2.4: Meet the Staff
  • 2.5: Board of Directors
  • 2.6: Our Supporters
• 3: Affordable Housing Development
  • 3.2: Recently Completed Houses
    • 3.2.1: Beaver Hills
    • 3.2.2: Dixwell/Newhallville
    • 3.2.3: Dwight/Edgewood
    • 3.2.4: Fair Haven
    • 3.2.5: Hill
    • 3.2.6: West River
    • 3.2.7: Hamden
  • 3.3: Houses on Deposit
  • 3.4: Houses for Sale
• 4: New Haven HomeOwnership Center
  • 4.1: Homebuyer Education Programs
    • 4.1.1: Pre-purchase Homebuyer Education Classes
    • 4.1.2: Budgeting and Financial Management Classes
    • 4.1.3: Individual Credit Counseling
    • 4.1.4: Home Improvement and Energy Conservation Laboratory
    • 4.1.5: Landlord Training
    • 4.1.6: Home Equity Conversion Mortgages
  • 4.2: Home Maintenance and Energy Conservation IDA Program
  • 4.3: Residential Lending and Financial Assistance
    • 4.3.1: Home Purchase
    • 4.3.2: Home Purchase with Rehabilitation
    • 4.3.3: Refinance with Rehabilitation
    • 4.3.4: Rehabilitation Loans
    • 4.3.5: Downpayment Assistance Programs
  • 4.4: Avoiding Predatory Lending
  • 4.5: Preventing Foreclosure
• 5: Community Building and Organizing
  • 5.1: Revitalization Demonstration Project
  • 5.2: Neighborhood Revitalization Institute
  • 5.3: Homebuyers Clubs
  • 5.4: Special Initiatives
    • 5.4.1: Community Greenspace Program
    • 5.4.2: Anti-Loitering Initiative
    • 5.4.3: Street Lights Initiative
  • 5.5: Getting Involved
• 6: Special Projects
  • 6.1: Fairlawn Manor
  • 6.2: Yale Building Project
  • 6.3: Moving a House
    • 6.3.1: Page 1
    • 6.3.2: Page 2
    • 6.3.3: Page 3
  • 6.4: 1389 Chapel Street
  • 6.5: Adaptive Re-use
• 7: Volunteer Your Services
• 8: Make a Contribution
• 9: Neighborhood Revitalization Campaign
• 10: Contact Us

The house sat vacant and available to prospective buyers for $1.99.  The only stipulation was that the buyer had to move the house to a new site. 

After a new site was secured, NHS had a myriad of tasks to complete before moving the house.  This included the demolition of existing additions and wings.

To prepare for moving the house, the entire foundation had to be removed and replaced with steel beams and wood cribbing.

The new site was at 115 Valley Street, some 2,000 feet from the house’s location on Blake Street.  The new site was acquired from Thomas Ciancia who became the new owner and resident of the renovated house.

As if the new site did not already have plenty of natural beauty with a backdrop of West Rock and the West River, a 500 year-old sycamore tree thrived at the rear of the property.