5 Historic Buildings That Moved Overseas

Captain James Cook, the famous explorer, navigator, and cartographer who spent 12 years mapping the Pacific, was a hero of England. So why does his family's humble cottage now stand in Melbourne, Australia?

Cook's parents built the brick house in Great Ayton, North Yorkshire, in 1755. In 1933 the woman in possession of the cottage decided to sell it, on the condition that it remain in England. However, for an ad for the sale that appeared in the Melbourne Herald, a persuasive Australian businessman named Russell Grimwade convinced her to change ?England" to ?the British Empire," a term that included Australia.

Grimwade then bought the cottage for ?800 and donated it to the town of Victoria, where Cook had made his first Australian landfall. Dissembled bricks were packed into more than 200 cases and barrels, along with sprigs of ivy from the walls to be replanted at the new site?Fitzroy Gardens in Melbourne.

Was the effort worth it? Historians aren't even sure Captain Cook ever lived in the cottage.

Source: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/engineering/architecture/5-historic-buildings-that-moved-overseas?src=rss

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