July 21, 2008
House Moved Sunday
When Jamison Design in Daleville gave the house to Gordon LaPrade this past spring, the adventure began.
The house originally belonged to the late C.S. Ikenberry one of the 20th century movers and shakers of Botetourt County and leading citizen of Daleville so told granddaughter Tammy Kelly of Fincastle.
LaPrade removed all of the bricks, a room and wrapped the house in Tyvek before heavy equipment dug out the house. They moved the home on a steel beamed frame with a tractor trailer pulling it. Virginia House Movers hauled the house about 12 miles on Sunday, July 20.
The moving operation began about 6 a.m.in Daleville and ended at 8:45 on Shavers Farm road near the Blacksburg Road.
The house makes the turn from US 220 north onto Country Club Road
Well-wishers followed Virginia House movers down the road. David Hill, who is semi-retired from the company and had a heart attack a few weeks ago, said he had been moving houses 43 years. One worker perched on the top to move low phone lines and the stoplight at the Catawba Road junction with U.S. 220, while another worker ran along side. Several workers sat in the back of a pick up truck waiting to jump into action if needed. Traffic backed up some but at the early hour it was not too bad. Sheriff's deputies escorted the house down 220 north to Country Club Road and from there to Blacksburg Road and to Shavers Farm Road near Fincastle.
The narrow turn onto Shavers Farm road was handled adroitly by the moving crew.
The event ended smoothly as the house movers backed the house into its new location.
This morning the heavy equipment smoothed over the hole in the parking lot as the new Jamison building prepares to finish off the lot this week said Mary Sue and Walter Jamison who accompanied the house as well wishers and Jamsion Design will open their new constructed office building.
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