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Roll Away ~ Pasadena

4:46 PM PST on November 30, 2009

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If you saw an apartment building rolling through the streets of Pasadena this morning, you weren't imagining things. A non-profit group began moving part of the historic Herkimer Arms Apartments from its near century-old home on Union Street to its new location on Raymond Street. When the building was slated for demolition last March, non-profit group Heritage Housing Partners purchased the building for $10 from the Fuller Theological Seminary.

The building was designed by famous architects Charles and Henry Green. More

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