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07.09.05 UVM MOVES 200-YEAR-OLD BUILDING ACROSS MAIN STREET TO MAKE WAY FOR DAVIS CENTER
The second oldest building on the University of Vermont campus, the Johnson House at 590 Main, recently took a two mile-per-hour, 550-foot trip across the street to make way for the University’s planned $61 million student center, the Dudley H. Davis Center.
The 4,300 square foot, 145 ton building (190 tons with the supporting steel)was lifted off its foundation and placed on a grid of steel beams supported by six, eight-wheel dollies. A truck and hydraulic powered dollies then moved the house across Main and placed it carefully on a new foundation specially built for the structure.
The Johnson House is changing address for the second time. Built in 1806 on the corner of Main and University Place, where the University’s Morrill Hall now stands, it was moved to its present location in 1906 after the University bought it from a prominent Burlington family.
Johnson House is home to the Gund Institute for Ecological Economic, which will reoccupy the building in late July. Before the Gund Institute took residence in 2002, the building was occupied by the UVM Agronomy Department, the School of Dental Hygiene, and the Center for Sustainable Agriculture.
Construction of the Dudley H. Davis Center will begin this summer. The 186,000 square foot first construction phase, scheduled for completion in September 2007, will house a bistro, lounges, computer labs, recreation and dining areas, retail food outlets, a bookstore, offices for student organizations, meeting rooms, and a banquet/multi-purpose room. The 35,000 square foot second phase of the building will be a 600-seat theater.