NORWAY — The Gingerbread House is expected to be moved to its new home on upper Main Street early next month.
Nancy Merry of James G. Merry Building Movers in Scarborough said Friday that workers expect to be in Norway in about two weeks and will spend a week “loading” the house up, getting it jacked up on wheels.
The porch and an outside chimney have been removed in preparation for hauling the three-story wood-framed house farther west on Main Street to a lot near Butters Park. The site work at the new location is finished.
Volunteers from the Norway Landmarks Preservation Society, the nonprofit organization doing business as Friends of the Gingerbread House, have worked the past two years to acquire the building and move it.
C’s Inc. which is a real estate holding company affiliated with Sun Media Group, publishers of the Sun Journal and Advertiser-Democrat, agreed late in 2008 to delay demolition of the 1851 home if anyone could successfully figure out a way to move the massive house. A final agreement was recently completed by the two parties.
The 80- by 17-foot building is known for its elaborate “gingerbread” trim added near the turn of the 19th century. Known historically as the Evans-Cummings House, it is on the National Register of Historic Places.
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