Without the fanfare and pared down in budget, projects like Mary Ellen Carroll’s much-hyped house moving art piece Prototype 180 are gaining traction as a popular pastime! Houston neighborhood blog The Heights Life reports a the recent 90-degree rotation of a vintage bungalow at 19th and Herkimer Streets, speculating that the rotation-in-place had “something to do with the historic district.” Rotating the corner-lot house would change its legal address, placing it either under (or out from under) historic district regulation.
