NORWAY — The Board of Selectmen was told at its meeting Thursday night that it will be another month before the Gingerbread House is moved to its new foundation on upper Main Street.

Andrea Burns of Norway Downtown reported to the board that James G. Merry Building Movers of Scarborough was in town this week to begin preparations to move the 19th century house farther west on Main Street to a spot near Butters Park. However, the actual move will not take place for at least another month.

The company has been delayed, in part, by a job in Old Orchard Beach, a company spokesman has said.

“They will tell us seven days in advance so we can get everything in place,” Burns said of the need of the Friends of the Gingerbread House to ensure that abutters and others are are notified.

Moving company officials said recently they would need about a week to jack it up on wheels.

The committee has already had some preliminary work done, such as the removal of an outside chimney and porch.

“It’s pretty exciting,” Burns said.

Volunteers from the Norway Landmarks Preservation Society, the nonprofit organization which is doing business as Friends of the Gingerbread House, have worked for the past two years to acquire the building and move it to a new lot.

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 historic home if anyone could successfully figure out a way to move the massive house off site. The volunteers banded together to save the landmark building.

The 80- by 17-foot building, known historically as the Evans-Cummings House, is on the National Register of Historic Places. It’s known for its elaborate “gingerbread” trim that was put on the home during a late 19th century renovation.

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