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Easy does it on move of La Fox home

Posted October 18, 2010 11:00 pm

For the second time in less than three years, a 30-ton home was moved along La Fox Road in La Fox. Originally close to the La Fox Metra station, the home was moved Tuesday about 500 yards. Dan and Tina Larsen purchased the home for $1, and plan on turning it into a guesthouse behind their La Fox home. “I'd rather see it in my yard than see it out there, said Larsen, who hopes to have the exterior refurbished by winter. Brian Hill

Dan and Tina Larsen are the new owners of an 1849 home they bought for a dollar. They're hoping to turn it into a guesthouse. But first, it had to be moved to the back end of their lot on La Fox Road.

La Fox Road from Keslinger Road to the Union Pacific Railroad tracks was closed for a short time Tuesday morning to accommodate the move, estimated about 500 yards.

The original part of the frame home dates to 1849, and was owned by La Fox settler Byron Kendall.

The home was originally where the La Fox train station is located, and was first moved about 2½ years ago to make way for the station. Lyle Hyatt and Co. in Sandwich has moved the house both times.

The Larsens bought the house about five months ago from North First I LLC, a real estate development firm.

The land around the station was supposed to have a 1,200-home Settlements of La Fox subdivision built on it in the mid-2000s, but the real estate crash has brought those plans to a halt.

Tina Larsen videotapes the move of the house she and her husband purchased and had moved Tuesday morning onto their property. BRIAN HILL/bhill@dailyherald.com

The LarsensÂ’ house is pulled slowly onto La Fox Road as it makes its way to a new resting spot at the back of their property. BRIAN HILL/bhill@dailyherald.com

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