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J T h e lOO-year-old Simon Benson house was moved off its founda tton Saturday and placed on Southwest 11th Avenue in downtowi Foitland m preparation for its final move on Sunday.

H isto r ic h o m e m o v e d to it s n e w a d d ress PORTLAND (AP) - Hundreds turned out to watch the historic Si­ mon Benson House travel seven blocks to its new address on the Portland State University campus.

The three-story Queen Anne house was built a century ago for one of Oregon’s most prominent and philanthropic citizens - the man who gave Portland its four-headed Benson bubbler fountains.

Benson donated the fountains so people could drink free water and timber crews wouldn’t miss work because of drunkenness.

The house’s journey Sunday marked the end of a two-year fund- raising struggle by the Friends of Simon Benson House to secure $358,000 in city money to start the $1.4 million project to save and re­ store the long-neglected house.

Sunday’s move went smoothly.

Terry Em mert, president of the moving company, Em m ert Interna­ tional, said they wanted to have the house in place before Sunday’s pre­ dicted 60-mph winds hit.

I And the crew just about made it."The only hold-up was an expect­ ed tight fit between Norway maples on thp route to the new site.

An eave had been taken off the house, and movers tipped the build­ ing slightly back and forth on its hy­ draulic dollies. Several maple branches and gnarls were also cut to help the house slip by.

The move was to take place dur­ ing the summer, but the Oregon State System of Higher Education Oregon University System wanted' to see the whole $1.4 million before * the house became its responsibility.

That issue was negotiated, how- , * ever, and interior restoration will J wait until the remaining $325,000 is i raised.

Benson had the decorative house , !

built in 1900.

He and his family lived, there for only 12 years, though, and the big house was converted into offices and apartments.

It has been vacant for the past nine years and neglected after be­ ing shut up for building-code viola­ tions.