Sometimes a house just needs to be moved no matter whats the cost.
But imagine moving a house for over 3,600 miles and across an ocean from one continent to another?
That happened not once but twice during the 1920s.
The Virginia House at its original location in Warwickshire, England, in 1900.
Set among landscaped gardens, Hawkins called his house “Hawk’s Nest”.
Hawkins is known to have entertained high profile guests at his house, including Queen Elizabeth I.
It was rumored that the Americans intended to demolish the house.
The house being demolished and loaded into a wagon.
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The Virginia House construction in Richmond, Virginia.
Fortunately, most of the stones survived.
These were packed into boxes and shipped across the Atlantic Ocean.
The east wing of the house is based on the family estate of the powerful Spencer-Churchill family.
The Weddells also added modern conveniences to the house such as toilets and central heating.
View of the house from the gardens.
Mr. Thomas Williams Jr was giving the finishing touches to his manor house named Agecroft Hall.
Reconstruction of the house set Williams back by a similar amountabout $250,000.
The house was completed during the spring of 1928, a year before Weddells.
Mr. Williams died the following year.
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