Calgary’s McHugh House, which was built back in 1896, is fully in the process of being moved to its new home in a park.
The building on 18 Avenue S.W. is a rare, intact, example of Queen Anne revival-style architecture.
Crews have dismantled the home brick by brick – the painstaking process began weeks ago.
The house was originally built for John McHugh, a prominent rancher who moved to Calgary from Ottawa.
It was then bought by the Catholic Church in 1960 and used as a group home.
The McHugh House has been a heritage site for the past 30 years.
It was marked for demolition but a movement helped save it earlier this year.
City council approved $450,000 in funding to help move the home to Humpy Hollow Park, a few blocks away.
Dwayne McCann, the foreman in charge of the moving process, says it is a very complex job.
"Lots of steel, lots of cross beams. There's a big fireplace that runs the full three storeys in there," he says. "That took a lot of patience and time to get that properly braced up for that first lift."
It will be about a day before the house is moved out onto the front lawn and the wheels shifted underneath.
The home will be moved on Sunday.
