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If
you are in the market for an historic
comfortable house with new plumbing and
wiring in the historic area of Wake
Forest for about $200,000, it will be
available in a few months.
Monday night the board of
directors for Capital Area Preservation
met and decided to cut the Lake house in
half and move it to a lot CAP purchased
on North College Street.
The house, a brown-shingled
1920s Craftsman bungalow with Oriental
detailing, sits in the footprint of
Patterson Hall on the Southeastern
Baptist Seminary’s west campus and must
be moved almost immediately for
construction to continue.
CAP President and CEO Gary
Roth; Kathryn Drake, a Wake Forest
attorney who chairs the CAP board; I.
Beverly Lake Jr., the retired chief
justice of the North Carolina Supreme
Court who once lived in the house; and
many others have been trying to find a
way to preserve the house for almost a
year.
The town commissioners
refused to sell a nearby lot as did at
least one other property owner. A plan
to move the house intact had to be
abandoned when there was too much cost
involved for Embarq to move telephone
and other lines.
The plan now is to begin
prepping the house Thursday (Aug. 23)
for it to be cut in half. “That should
be done by the middle of next week,”
Roth said Tuesday.
The two halves will be moved
to a location on the seminary land while
Roth and others get all the needed
permits for the move and prepare the lot
where the house will stand.
“We’re still seeking funds,”
Roth said. “We’re looking for about
$12,000 more. It’s just a very expensive
proposition to cut it, the prep work.
It’s a much bigger proposition than we
ever dreamed.”
Lake, Drake and other CAP
board members are asking for donations.
If you want to help move the Lake house,
you can pledge a donation by calling
833-6404.
“We’re trying to keep it
(the house) affordable. That’s why
donations from people are important.”
“We appreciate all the
support we’ve gotten,” Roth said. “We
just had the feeling it was important
and should be saved.”
The seminary has donated the
house to CAP and pledged $20,000 for the
move, and the Wake Forest commissioners
voted to waive fees and provide crews
and equipment, up to $20,000, for the
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