I was drive around my neighborhood recently and pick up this creepy looking theatre that the urban center is fetch ready to move across town . Still not incisively sure why ( seems demolishing it would be better ) , but it mystify me think : what other big structures have been move and why ? Here are five that have interesting histories .
1. Belle Tout Lighthouse
Built in the early 1800s and turn up in Beachy Head , East Sussex , the Belle Tout Lighthouse was moved 56 feet in 1999 as a retreating coastline threatened its existence . The 850 - ton watershed was affect using hydraulic jacks that pushed the lighthouse along four beams that were lubricated with grunge .
Lighthouse fun fact : Early lighthouses like these that were build before electricity , relied on oil lamps to guide the ships . The Belle Tout Lighthouse had so many lamps , it went through 2 gallons of oil colour every minute .
2. Empire Theater
3. Brown University’s Peter Green House
4. Abu Simbel
Pharaoh Ramesses II had these magnificent temples built in the thirteenth century BC to commemorate an allege victory in conflict . But more than three thousand year by and by , in 1964 , they had to be turn off into pieces and moved 65 m up to higher primer to avoid implosion therapy from construction of a nearby dam along the banks of the Nile River . Let my temple go , already : It took 4 years to dismember the temples , number the pieces , and then redo everything up at the new website .
5. Floating Church of the Redeemer
A not - so - merry Christmas : Several age after it dropped mainstay in Camden , the church was destroyed by fire on Christmas daybreak .
