Moving house
The Brown campus is in the midst of some major construction. After a rather obtrusive utilities upgrade, Brown will boldly connect it’s Main Green to the Pembroke campus. This noble effort is known as “The Walk”. It involves many stages of demolition and construction, and threatens to tear down all structures that stand in its way (mostly parking lots).
One structure under threat was the Peter Green House. At 142 Angell Street it lay directly in the Walk’s path. Fortunately the house narrowly escaped in the nick of time, moving about 450 feet over the course of a week. That’s over 0.005 mph, breakneck speed for a 140 year old house.
You can see a time-lapsed video of the move here.
With the Peter Green House safe and sound at the corner of Angell and Brown, it the UEL Garden will likely be the Walk’s next victim. I’m told that on September 9th the garden will removed. Don’t worry though, it will be rebuilt soon after, no doubt redesigned by some well paid garden consultant. Goooooooooooo Progress!