Earth Mover Award: People Who Make a Difference

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September/October 2005
By Laurel Kallenbach 
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Houses that can’t be saved in their entirety are stripped of doors, windows, floors, porches, railings, light fixtures, sinks, and bathtubs, which Historic Houston sells to the public from its warehouse. A relocated house in the salvage warehouse’s parking lot serves as the organization’s renovation classroom, where participants learn to redo floors and hang doors and windows. When one house is renovated, it goes to a low-income family and is replaced with another fixer-upper.

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Edmundson loves delivering an old house to a new family—many of them proud, first-time homeowners. “These little bungalows are modest by today’s standards, but they’re perfect for an elderly person or small family, and they’re environmentally friendly in a lot of ways,” she says. “They were built to accommodate Houston’s climate before air conditioning.”

Through her home deliveries, Edmundson shares a bond with new homeowners, who often invite her to the house after it’s renovated. “Moving houses is a weird little thing that I do,” she says, “but when I see a beautiful old home redone, I’m happy it got moved so it can be around for another hundred years.”

 

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