Local NewsTuesday, November 3
Lincoln's Fairview mansion will roll across Bryan East Campus on Saturday
The Good Day Lincoln team
Fairview, the mansion built for William Jennings Bryan and his wife, Mary, moves Saturday, Nov. 7 to the northeast corner of Bryan East Campus at 52nd and A streets. It was officially lifted Oct. 29. Bryan Health needs the room to grow its emergency department and NICU: the ER saw 25,000 patients in 2015 and, ten years later, 54,000.
Fairview weighs 2.3 million pounds and rolls on 34 dollies
- 2.3 million
- pounds of brick house to move
- 34
- remote-controlled dollies under it
- 1 mph
- is how fast it moves
Source: Nebraska Examiner
Heading that way? Sumner Street between 48th and 52nd streets closes at 7 p.m. tonight, and 52nd Street between Sumner and A closes Thursday. The ER entrance stays open via 49th Street between South and Sumner. At a Friday press conference, Bryan Health said the work won't affect voting at the College of Health Services polling location.
- Viewing: Sat., Nov. 7, 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
- Parking: Garage B, then a walk to Sumner Garage
- Bus: StarTran Route 53-SouthPointe will be detoured
- Auction of museum items ends Nov. 8
Street closures start tonight and run through Sunday
- Nov. 3Sumner Street between 48th and 52nd closes at 7 p.m.
- Nov. 552nd Street between Sumner and A closes.
- Nov. 7Fairview moves; the public viewing runs 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
- Nov. 8Sumner Street reopens and the museum-item auction ends.
Sources: 1011now.com, KLKN-TV
Sources: Nebraska Examiner, Lincoln Journal Star, 1011now.com, KLKN-TV