Not only do you get to spend half a million dollars on buying it, you’ll have to figure out how and where to move a ridiculously large house. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/35-Stonehouse-Dr-Princeton-NJ-08540/39013680_zpid/
There’s some speculation in the comments on this site that the American Battlefield Trust purchased it as part of an effort to preserve a historic battlefield location in Princeton. So they don’t want to be destroying other historic stuff, I guess?
I love this bit from the description:
While currently located within the Princeton Public School district, the municipality where the house is moved will determine where students will attend public schools.
As if some people may assume the school zoning would follow the physical house where ever it gets relocated. It’s one of those lines that gets added to the description because someone asked that question in the past.
Sure, I’ll just hook it up to the trailer hitch.
You can’t just casually mention that the whole house has to be moved to another location and not even say why.
I assume a rich asshole bought it, assuming he could demolish it, found out it is protected, and is now trying to pass the relocation costs on to some other rich asshole. I don’t even see how this place can be moved though, it looks like masonry on a slab.
At first I was thinking this is a great price for a historically important home in Princeton, and you can actually get land pretty cheap a little bit north in Hunterdon County, but jeez, what would it cost to relocate and update that house?!
I think there’s a good chance that with proper structural bracing an Apache helicopter could be used to haul chunks of it to its new location yeah but you’re looking at maybe a quarter million dollars, maybe a little less if you own the construction company that’s moving it.
