[Leica] E.M. Baltes Building

[chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com (Christopher Crawford)]

There have been a few around here. I know of two brick one-room schoolhouses 
that have been moved to save them from demolition. One sat on land owned by 
American Electric Power (they had a substation next to the building) and 
they wanted it gone. The company donated the building to Southwest Allen 
County Schools, the public school district where it was located. SWACS 
wanted it moved to one of their modern schools a couple hundred feet down 
the road from the original location, and if I remember right, AEP paid for 
the move, too. After it was moved, SWACS had it restored to original 
condition inside and out, complete with genuine school desks from the period 
when it was built. They use it to teach kids about what school was like 100 
years ago.

http://www.sacs.k12.in.us/about_sacs/our_history


The other one was home to a hair salon, and it was moved because a developer 
wanted the land it was on to build a shopping center. The owner made a deal 
where the developer moved the building to a spot next to the new shopping 
center's entrance, where the salon would get a lot more traffic than before.


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?On 12/23/20, 5:05 PM, "LUG on behalf of John McMaster" 
<lug-bounces+chris=chriscrawfordphoto.com at leica-users.org on behalf of 
john at mcmaster.co.uk> wrote:

    Cool, not really known of brick buildings being moved - seen plenty of 
wooden ones moved.
    
    john
    
    ?On 23/12/2020, 21:30, "LUG on behalf of Christopher Crawford" 
<lug-bounces+john=mcmaster.co.uk at leica-users.org on behalf of chris at 
chriscrawfordphoto.com> wrote:
    
        This 120 year old building in downtown Fort Wayne, Indiana has been 
moved twice in the last couple years. I made this photograph soon after it 
arrived in its current location, where it is going to be repurposed as a 
restaurant.
    
    
        https://chriscrawfordphoto.com/chris-details.php?product=3366
    
        Leica IIIf Red Dial and 90mm Elmar
    
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        Chris Crawford
    
        Fine Art Photography
    
        Fort Wayne, Indiana
    
        260-437-8990
    
        http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com  My portfolio
    
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