This video shows the move of the Holland House, Elon University's former presidents’ house on Haggard Avenue, across the railroad tracks to South Campus June of 2009. Relocating the Holland House makes room for a Phi Beta Kappa plaza and an Elon Academic Village to be built. On June 13, 2009 the actual move began, with workers inching the mansion east on Haggard, then south on Antioch Avenue, to a staging area where it sat overnight. The next morning, the same team started again, carefully navigating the house past utility poles and trees that lined the Antioch Avenue. Workers waited for an eastbound Amtrak train to clear the area before placing timbers across the tracks to permit the building to cross. Dozens of spectators visited campus to watch the move take place, applauding once the house, perched on steel beams seven feet in the air, completed its journey over the railroad onto South Campus. President Emeritus J. Earl Danieley, one of the presidents to reside in the Holland House was in the crowd. He stated, “I have mixed emotions. On the one hand, I have memories of living in the house. But on the other, I am so happy that the university is keeping the building. It will be located in a nice place. It will be put back in good order. It will be used for another generation.” The Holland House resided on Haggard Avenue, it was later served as the home for the alumni and parent offices, as well as the development office and the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning. In addition, it provided space for the Department of Leisure and Sport Management, the Periclean Scholars program, and for office of Elon University Admissions staff. Upon the move of The Holland House to South Campus, it became home to the Newman Center (Elon University’s Catholic Campus Ministry). The center will offer students a library, meeting space and a new kitchen and dining area for weekly Newman Center programs and dinners. Living quarters for three Catholic students, as well as a newly hired peer ministry coordinator, will ...