CROWN POINT | Driving down Main Street isn't unusual, but driving down Main Street and seeing a house lifted off its foundation is.

The former farmhouse at 525 Main St. recently was lifted off its foundation and moved four feet to the east so new homeowner Cynthia Cooke-Lambert can put in a new foundation and add a room for a second car to the home's garage.

"I thought it might fall down when they moved it," Cooke-Lambert said Friday.

She hopes to rehabilitate the house and move in with her family.

Cooke-Lambert said she watched the Crown Point-based company Dillabaugh Inc. lift and move the house.

"I didn't realize it was being lifted until all the sudden there was a 2-inch gap," she said.

When the house was lifted, a 7 foot round well was discovered.

Paul Bremer, chairman of the city's Historic Preservation Commission, said the nearly 100-year-old house is not part of a historic district. But Bremer is hopeful it could be in the future.

The former owners of the house once owned a farm that spread from Greenwood Avenue to Lake Street.

"I thought with all the talk about recycling -- they're knocking down old buildings and building new ones -- why not make an old building nice and use it?" Cooke-Lambert said.