[Leica] E.M. Baltes Building

[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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