A Habitat House Gets Built

How does a Habitat house get built?

The best way to describe how a Habitat house gets built is through community involvement. Some houses start off very quietly with barely anyone knowing there is a Habitat house being built. Other houses start off with a full crew ready to go on day one. The Freeport Habitat house is somewhere in between.

Many Freeporters may have noticed the reconstruction of a house on West Street last summer. The house came in many parts and was slowly reassembled over the course of several months. It was, in a way, a mystery house, shrouded in a blue plastic tarp. The house sat over the winter with nary a nail being struck and no indication who owned the building or when (or if) it would be completed!

Then, back in April, the mystery started to lift- the house on West Street was a Habitat house. The property had been donated by the town and the building itself was given to Habitat for Humanity by LL Bean after it was disassembled and removed from its former location on Cross Street.

Over last summer the building was moved into place after the foundation was poured by the construction crew putting in the new Freeport Village Station.

And this is how a Habitat house is built- with donations of time and resources by neighbors and corporations and towns.