ORANGE : Plan to Relocate Historic Home OKd

City officials gave final approval Tuesday to a plan that will uproot the historic Queen Anne House from the corner of Pixley Street and Almond Avenue and relocate it to Old Tustin.

The city Redevelopment Agency voted unanimously to sell the century-old Victorian home for $1 to Tustin Planning Commissioner Don A. LeJeune, who has agreed to transplant the home to a street dotted with 19th-Century homes.

LeJeune’s proposal last month to move the home to his lot at 440 W. Main St. in Tustin saved the building from a September deadline for demolition. Officials were prepared to tear down the home, which has a pitched gable roof and bay windows, to make way for a planned 15-unit home for senior citizens on the property.

In the past decade, the home, built about 1895, was sold to the city for $1, moved, boarded up, slated for demolition and considered as a facility for drug-addicted infants. LeJeune plans to move the home to its new site on Aug. 14.