Moving The Roat House (Video Essay- Enjoy!)
By: Jayne Ann Bugda
Updated: November 8, 2012
Kingston, Luzerne County- Wyoming Seminary Upper School is moving a house to make way for new a new creative arts center.
It will take about two hours to move the house to its new location on N. Maple Avenue once it has been lifted off its old foundation and turned to face Maple Avenue.
Wolfe House and Building Movers of Bernville, Pa. is moving the house
Here is some history about the The Roat House: It was the home of the late Harry C. and Agnes Baldwin Roat family who owned and operated the former Roat Hardware and Supply Company in Kingston. The late Arthur Roat, son of Harry Roat and a 1909 graduate of Wyoming Seminary, died in 1988 and bequeathed the house to Wyoming Seminary, who took ownership of it in 1989. The house has been used as faculty housing since 1989.
The family will be able to move into the home by Christmas
It will take about two hours to move the house to its new location on N. Maple Avenue once it has been lifted off its old foundation and turned to face Maple Avenue.
Wolfe House and Building Movers of Bernville, Pa. is moving the house
Here is some history about the The Roat House: It was the home of the late Harry C. and Agnes Baldwin Roat family who owned and operated the former Roat Hardware and Supply Company in Kingston. The late Arthur Roat, son of Harry Roat and a 1909 graduate of Wyoming Seminary, died in 1988 and bequeathed the house to Wyoming Seminary, who took ownership of it in 1989. The house has been used as faculty housing since 1989.
The family will be able to move into the home by Christmas
