A historic house in Summerdale, East Pennsboro Township started its move today to a new location about four blocks away.
The 180-year-old stone Enola Miller house, a historic gem for the township, is being relocated to make way for a proposed development at First and Valley streets.
Jim Leonard, Historical Society of East Pennsboro Township director, said the house will end up about four blocks away at a prepared lot at First and Miller streets.
Leonard said the move is to be financed by the owner of the site where the house now sits, First Street Associates, under a deal. A Berks County building moving firm, Wolfe House & Building Movers, is heading the relocation project.
Earlier this month Leonard noted there was a degree of nervousness surrounding the venture, even though construction experts have assured society members the house is sound enough to be shifted.
The house was not moved by way of local streets. Instead, a temporary gravel road was built directly to the new site where the house’s foundation is located.
Society members had said the actual transfer could be completed in as little as a day.
The work won’t end there. The house is to be deeded to the township and ultimately to the society. The intent is for it to become the group’s new headquarters, Leonard said.
“We want it to be a showcase,” he said.
Much work will be needed since the house was vandalized while vacant, he said. “We want to make sure the house is solid,” Leonard said.
The move will occur three years after the house was placed on Cumberland County’s Register of Historic Places. The building’s fate had been undecided at times as society members lobbied to prevent it from being razed to make way for development.
The mountain stone house was built by Henry Longsdorf in 1841. It originally consisted of one large room with a fireplace and a sleeping area on the upper floor.
Two generations after Longsdorf built the house, local residents petitioned the Northern Central Railroad for a passenger station and freight siding to be built on the old Longsdorf farm. Wesley Miller, a Civil War veteran and a Longsdorf son-in-law, was invited to name the new station. He chose the name Enola after his 4-year-old daughter.
For more information, or to donate to the restoration project, visit the Historical Society of East Pennsboro website.
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