On The Move

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Two houses that had stood along South Jackson Street for decades made their way to the center of the DePauw University campus Monday and Tuesday in a house-moving effort coordinated by Joe Spiker Excavating, Greencastle, with the expertise of MCF House Movers, Washington. The houses first traveled across South Jackson Street (below) on Monday, coming to rest in the DePauw parking lot west of the Lilly Center until overhead power lines could be moved out of the way Tuesday morning. That enabled the buildings to make their way east on Olive Street, turning south onto Locust Street (above) before coming to rest at their new location on two lots south of the DPU Media Center. The houses were moved to make room for a new entrance to the parking area for DPU's expanding Blackstock athletic complex.

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  • When is Greencastle going to change the name to DePauwville?? What DePauw wants, DePauw gets it seems to me.

    -- Posted by donantonioelsabio on Wed, Mar 27, 2013, at 4:45 PM
  • They need to just close campus and make depauw kids not get discounts on everything and screw the rest of us that actually live it all yr around. The rich kids with daddys money dont need any discounts

    -- Posted by wolfgirl89 on Thu, Mar 28, 2013, at 12:28 AM
  • Great idea. Let's get rid of DePauw altogether so we can be a nice little hamlet of 1500 people with no stores, jobs, restaurants. Greencastle thrives because of DePauw. Get over it.

    -- Posted by Geologist on Thu, Mar 28, 2013, at 5:50 AM
  • Let me get this straight, DePauw owns the houses and the property they were located on and the property they are being moved to. Explain to me how this means DePauw is receiving some special privilege from the city?? If you owned a house and property and wanted to move the house to another property you would be given the same permissions they were given. This has happened many times before in this town. The original Seminary Street B&B, the original Victorian Day Spa and B&B next to it were all moved from along Seminary at one time or another, by someone other than DePauw. Study up on your Economics101 and then argue about the detriments of having the university in the town. VolunteerFF is correct.

    -- Posted by scalbin on Thu, Mar 28, 2013, at 6:06 PM
  • Greencastle residents should be grateful and look to move UP in their thinking to the level of DePauw operations! We need to STOP trying to make DePauw come down to the level of a 1950's town mentality that no longer benefits residents on its own. Our town is great because we have DePauw as our partner! Go DePauw!

    -- Posted by Valzo on Wed, Apr 3, 2013, at 12:09 PM
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