BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) – A Plymouth builder is launching a last-ditch effort to save the 200-year-old home of the founder of Lake Compounce amusement park.

Ken Karl wants to move the post-and-beam Colonial farmhouse elsewhere, and already tried unsuccessfully to have it placed on the National Register of Historic Places for protection.

The Gad Norton House sits on land owned by the amusement park, whose owners want to build a maintenance building on the site.

Karl is appealing to Attorney General Richard Blumenthal to block the park from demolishing the structure this week. Blumenthal has declined to become involved so far.

Gad Norton founded the amusement park in 1846, and it stayed in his family until 1985. He lived in the two-story farmhouse throughout his life.

Karl has only a few days to secure a delay and appeal the state’s decision against recommending the house for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places. A construction company already has permits to start demolition on Thursday.

“If I win the appeal, it won’t do much good if the house is in pieces,” Karl said.