The First Baptist Church, built in 1806 is being moved to make way for a new courthouse, January 2009, Salem, Massachusetts

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Cunningham Hall, University of Washington, 2009

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The 125-year-old Buchanan Mansion rolling down the road in Tipton, Iowa, 2009

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The 45 feet high and 35 feet Serendipity, which became famous as the inn from Nights In Rodanthe (2008), moved from its original site in January 2010

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Relocation of the 122-year-old Oerlikon building, Zürich, Switzerland, 2011-2012

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The building was moved with 200 ft (60 m) in two days.The physical work freeing the foundations of the old factory and putting it on rolling tracks started on the Summer of 2011, but the actual operation started on May 22 2012. With the use of 500 rollers and two hydraulic pressers the 6,200 ton-heavy building was pushed with the speed of 10-16 ft per hour to 200 ft (60 m) from its original place.

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Transport of buildings in Kingston, 2012

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A 19th-century railway station in Chene-Bourg, Switzerland, has been moved 33m (108ft) to make way for new track, 2013

Mobile Building in 2000, a drawing from Hildenbrand Factory chocolate boxes, 1899-1901, Germany

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