House Moved by Sea

[Captain Jim]

There are no words. Two hundred and twenty tons on a barge. In case you think that this is PhotoShopped, I also have pictures of it going on the barge, but that will have to wait until Saturday. This is the Lamb House, relocating from Palmetto FL to Ruskin via Tampa Bay right through the Sunshine Skyway. The 98-year-old house will be used as a retreat for ministers and missionaries. It's a good thing that someone saved this old place or I might have done something unwise/stupid with money.

I have watched this house for 43 years, afraid that it would be torn down to make way for "progress." I once broke in to look around (it was abandoned[!] at the time) and found that the original woodwork was still largely in place. The last use of the house was as a County run halfway house for "mentally challenged" individuals. A(nother) condominium is going up where it once stood on the banks of the Manatee River.

Definition of surreal, isn't it?

[Silkie McDonough]

wow.

that is amazing.

What a beautiful building!

[William Brand]

A very cool picture. Surreal doesn't begin to describe it.

[Rumba Rue]

Saw it on our news stations. What a great house, glad it was saved!

[McBarnacle]

The only thing that can be said to that is:-

[Skavenger]

I want one.... or two.... or.... what comes next?

[Shipwreck John]

I want one.... or two.... or.... what comes next?

Me too!! Definitely my idea of a Houseboat

[Skavenger]

Solves all parking probs n having ta pack fer vacation...