Cradit-Moore House (current location)

Cornell and Historic Ithaca seal deal to move 183-year-old home
The Ithaca Journal, Jul 27,1999, P. 2, with photo of Cradit-Moore House in its original location, in 1999.
 
"Cornell University will donate the Cradit-Moore House, a 183-year-old home, to Historic Ithaca, which will relocate it to one of two locations, officials from both entities announced at a joint press conference Monday.
  The announcement answers a question about the future of the house that has lingered since Cornell announced plans to put a soccer field where the house is located as part of the university's S65 million North Campus Residential Initiative.
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  For more than a year, the university and the historic preservation group have been debating the fate of the Cradit-Moore House, a historic home built in 1816 by Isaac Cradit, one of the founders of Forest Home
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  In the agreement, which is still being finalized, Cornell will donate the house to Historic Ithaca, donate a site for the house and provide up to $40,000 to move it."

Moving the Cradit-Moore House, May 2000
Forest Home Improvement Association (FHIA), with photo of house leaving its original location.

"After much anticipation, Historic Ithaca begins the move of Forest Home’s historic Cradit-Moore house on Tuesday, May 23 [2000].  The move is from 128 Pleasant Grove Road on Cornell University’s north campus to a lot between 166 and 172 Pleasant Grove Road, approximately three-tenths of a mile north of its original location.  This two-story Greek Revival home, built in 1817, was originally owned by Benjamin Cradit, a local farmer and landowner.  The house had additions made to it, and underwent restoration and remodeling in the late 1930s.  The last private owner was Dr. Norman Moore, the first director of Cornell University’s health care system.  The house was sold to Cornell in 1946."

Cradit-Moore House
Post (dated Aug 9, 2022) by Historic Ithaca about the move of the house on May 23, 2000
With photo of two parts of the house on trailers.

"Built in 1817 in the Federal style, updated to the Greek Revival style early in its life, and significantly increased in size by later additions and remodeling, the house weighed approximately 100 tons at the time it was moved. Historic Ithaca purchased the house in 1999 and coordinated its move to a new site on Pleasant Grove Road, just three-tenths of a mile away from its original location."

Cradit-Moore house move near completion
The Ithaca Journal, Jan 3 2001, P. 2, with photo of building in new location

"After many heated public hearings and much discussion by Town of Ithaca officials. Cornell gained approval in March for the project and agreed to donate the Cradit-Moore house to Historic Ithaca, provide land for the house under a 99-year land lease and the money necessary to relocate it.
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  Scott Whitham, executive director of Historic Ithaca - the historic preservation agency that oversaw the Cradit-Moore house's relocation — said the house just needed some interior electric work done before new owners could move in.
  The two-story Greek Revival house sat at 128 Pleasant Grove Road for 183 years until this past May, when Historic Ithaca contractors moved it three-tenths of a mile down the road out of the Town of Ithaca and into the Village of Cayuga Heights."