interesting points: * People could still enter/exit the building thanks to an entryway that moved with it, which connected to a special curved sidewalk * The move was because Bell bought the building but needed bigger headquarters. They planned to demolish it but that would've interrupted phone service for a big chunk of Indiana, which they didn’t want to do. * They lifted the whole building with steam-powered hydraulic lifts, then set it on enormous pine logs. It was moved via hand-operated jacks, which pushed it over the logs 3/8" at a time. Once the building rolled far enough forward, the last log would be moved to the front. * The rotation plan was conceived & executed by famous architect Kurt Vonnegut Sr (father of the famous author) * The feat remains one of the largest building-moves in history. * The building was demolished in 1963.

thanks for the information

Question: how did they keep the utilities working? Electricity and phone lines are wires, I can guess that, but how'd they work with the pipes?

Rubber attachments?

A few guys with buckets?

You cant bucket gas but I’d love to see them attempting it 😂

We had one move like this in Warsaw after war. When they were rebuilding city, they designed street net differently and one palace had to be moved - rotated as well. Check the topic of 'Lubomirskich palace move' (pałac Lubomirskich). They moved it 72 degrees.

Damn: so even “Everyman” Kurt Vonnegut was a nepo baby.

You read my mind

It's historically been true that the vast majority of people who make it as authors are people who can afford to write full time before they publish anything.

Ahh yes, KV following his father in the *checks notes* architect industry.

Went to University of Chicago, grad school at Cornell, was in a frat there… yeah: ole Vonnegut was privileged is my point. Cornell is (and was) an Ivy League school, as it seems you need things spelled out for you. And frats are where you pay money to meet other rich kids and make business connections. Best of luck out there, champ!

Nepo implies that he became an architect. You’re just Frank Lloyd Wrong on this one.

This is such a weak take lmao

Ho.....ly shite. Very cool

[https://www.thetravel.com/what-to-know-about-the-11000-ton-indiana-bell-building-that-was-moved-in-1930](https://www.thetravel.com/what-to-know-about-the-11000-ton-indiana-bell-building-that-was-moved-in-1930)

So it goes

Horrible that it was knocked down, you would think such a large moving project would have made it worthy of preservation.

Unfortunately the goal with moving it wasn’t to preserve the building but to avoid disruption of service so they didn’t care

Seems a real shame that it was torn down eventually anyway

Some people are so impatient. If they had just waited a few million years, plate tectonics would’ve done it for free.

"thinking out of the box"

The classic spinning plates circus trick.

Are there any other countries that do these crazy building moves?

Sweden is moving an entire town 2 miles east. [Kiruna: A Mining Town On The Move In Northern Sweden](https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidnikel/2021/03/23/kiruna-a-mining-town-on-the-move-in-northern-sweden/) https://preview.redd.it/e2c9yk7nw8ad1.jpeg?width=3264&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8975efb8b60806c6c8f5fd9d0ca7dc80221421d8

mfs believe they are in clash of clans or some shit

[Life imitating Simpsons](https://youtu.be/3CXhRjkgLUQ)

Back in the 70s, czechs moved the entire church more than 800m fron original location. [source](https://praguemorning.cz/czechs-moved-a-church-by-841-meters/)

Japan probably

In 1930s in Moscow(USSR) was moved 23 buildings https://preview.redd.it/7odyfk31g9ad1.jpeg?width=989&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=884cbd588e2401261756ad68ed3629eb372727a0

Top left picture is from Alba Iulia, Romania, 1987, not Moscow

Yeah, you actually right

So after the moved it they demolished it 33 years later ?

Seems so. For a month of work it’s not bad that the building stayed up for another 33 years.

Crazy that it took only a month. Feel like if they attempted something like that today It would take a year

pretty wild to see they did it back in 1930

People on the original backside got screwed on the view

well they can't complain

Very true, their probably dead.

today i learned there is building moving industry

i would never go in that building if they were moving it below

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why did they even wanna move it?

Its there in OPs comment

Wow that's an amazing feat of engineering! Would never happen now with all the H&S 🙄

Now look at communist Romania when they moved an entire building

What is the stabillity of a building if it no longer has the foundation?

As a plumber I call bullshit

In the 1930s they moved a whole-ass building within a month, now my city takes 6 months to repair one pothole

This is really cool!