Heaviest hotel re-located
Who
Hotel Fairmount
What
1451 tonne(s)/metric ton(s)
Where
United States (San Antonio,Texas)
When
The three-storey brick Hotel Fairmount (built 1906) in San Antonio, Texas, USA, which weighed 1,451 tonnes, was moved on 36 dollies with pneumatic tyres over city streets approximately five blocks and over a bridge which had to be reinforced. The move by Emmert International of Portland, took six days, from 30 March to 4 April 1985, and cost $650,000.