A Barrington house dating to the late 1800s is getting ready to take a ride.
Restaurateur Mark Hoffmann closed a deal last month for the former Wool Street Grill and Sports Bar, which will be converted into Moretti’s Ristorante and Pizzeria, and for the historic house and land next door. Moretti’s is expected to open this year.
Instead of razing the 118 Wool St. home for Moretti’s parking, Hoffmann said he has donated it to Barrington Hills documentary filmmaker Jeff Baustert, who plans to move it to his family’s property for use as a guesthouse. Workers preparing for the move were on the home’s property Thursday.
Under a tentative plan, the house was to take off from Wool and Station streets at 5:15 a.m. Sunday for an estimated 7½-hour, 3-mile trip west to Barrington Hills. But village officials said Thursday the house, dating to sometime in the 1870s, now is expected to be transported in July.
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