Movers and shakers
The house formerly owned by George Whitten is propped up on iron beams and hydraulic jacks. Workers from Jewett Builders prepare for the big move. RYAN LEIGHTON/Boothbay Register
Two wrecker trucks trucks get ready to haul the country club house up to the hill on May 29. RYAN LEIGHTON/Boothbay Register
The house formerly owned by George Whitten is propped up on iron beams and hydraulic jacks. Workers from Jewett Builders prepare for the big move. RYAN LEIGHTON/Boothbay Register
Two wrecker trucks trucks get ready to haul the country club house up to the hill on May 29. RYAN LEIGHTON/Boothbay Register
For three weeks, workers from Jewett Builders have been busy preparing to move the house that overlooks the fairways at the Boothbay Harbor Country Club. Weighing in at an estimated 90 tons, the house perched on hydraulic jacks and gigantic support beams was relocated to one of the two remaining lots on Fiddlers Green Drive to make room for the new driving range soon to be built in its place.
Two wrecker trucks from Blagden's Garage rated to pull 45 tons each were called into to haul the house up a dirt slope to its new wooded surroundings. In the course of four hours, the house was moved roughly 500 feet to the northwest of its former plot.
The house formerly belonged to George Whitten of Boothbay Harbor and his family, but changed hands when Southport philanthropist Paul Coulombe bought it and the former Boothbay Country Club.
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