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 day before the move on January 6, 2004, the house sat on jumbo jet wheels and outfitted steel supports that would attach to the tractor.

On January 7, 2004 at 11:30 a.m., the house began its three-hour journey down Blake and Valley Streets.  Its biggest challenge was the need for the utility wires between the poles to be dropped or raised.

Utility workers and City officials looked on as the house made its way out of its home of 160 years.

The house eased over the West River Bridge, perhaps the first house ever to cross these rushing waters!

With West Rock in the background, the house took a shortcut through a parking lot at Blake Street Center to avoid the intersection at Valley Street.