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Here’s to another 250 years History on the move. Morris House relocation described as template for preservation haley ryan
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“It’s these sort of projects that are exciting.” Historian Blair Beed
It will be transformed into a youth home by the Metro Nonhaley.ryan@metronews.ca Profit Housing Association. “There’s nothing to say that Amid cheers and the clanging somebody who stays here won’t of a town crier’s bell, Morris become an important surveyor House was pulled onto a north- or another interesting person end lot to begin the next stage in the history of the province,” local historian Blair Beed said. of its life. The 249-year-old heritage “It’s going to help other people building ended its two-day-long with their futures.” Dressed in an old-fashioned relocation at about 12:30 p.m. on Sunday as a trailer pulled red-and-gold town-crier outfit, the house onto the site at Beed walked with the Georgianera house en route, ringing a Charles and Creighton Streets. “It’s truly amazing,” said Jo- large bell. He said there’s no reason anne Barrett, who was among the small crowd watching the the building won’t last for another 200 years, and the city move. “A couple of times the house could use Morris House as a sort of teetered a bit.... I’m not template for dealing with other the world’s greatest driver and heritage properties. “It could mean incorporatI can’t imagine doing something like this,” Barrett said. ing it into a new development, “This was an opportunity not rather than always saying, ‘It’s in the way, it’s old, let’s get rid to miss.” The house was held by of it,” Beed said. “You can hold it up and say, four generations of the Morris family, who were chief sur- ‘Go to that corner and see how veyors of Nova Scotia, and was it’s working,’ and maybe that saved from demolition in 2009 would encourage people to Workers move Morris House to its final destination at the corner of Charles and Creighton streets on Sunday afternoon, after a two-day relocation from the by the Heritage Trust of Nova have less fear about how comLMD-HFX-Metro-000ext-10x164-CLR.pdf 1 13-01-04 12:34south PM end of Halifax. Jeff Harper/Metro plicated it could be,” he said. Scotia. C
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