LINCOLN — Nebraska’s capital city is preparing for an unprecedented spectacle Saturday.
One of Lincoln’s two prestigious National Historic Landmarks — the 125-year-old Fairview mansion built for political heavyweight William Jennings Bryan and his wife, Mary — will be relocated to a different corner of the hospital campus that grew around it.
That’s 2.3 million pounds of brick house, moving at one mile per hour atop 34 specialized remote-controlled dollies, each with eight semi-truck-size tires. Crews will be laying out a temporary path of gravel, rock and steel plates between the mansion’s current and future sites.
It’s expected to take about 10 hours for the home to travel about a third of a mile from the south side of Bryan East Campus to its northeast corner at 52nd and A streets…