Lincoln, Neb.-based Bryan Health is moving a 125-year-old National Historic Landmark across its Bryan East Campus to clear space for a larger emergency department and neonatal ICU, according to an Oct. 30 news release shared with Becker’s.
The Fairview mansion, built around 1901 for William Jennings Bryan and his wife, Mary, is set to move Nov. 7. The home, estimated to weigh 2.3 million-pounds, or 1,150 tons, will travel about one-third of a mile at 1 mile per hour on 34 remote-controlled dollies, a trip expected to take about 10 hours. If weather or other problems interfere, the move will be pushed back a week, The Nebraska Examiner reported Nov. 2.
The Bryans deeded the home and surrounding land to the local Methodist Conference in 1922, and Bryan Memorial Hospital opened four years later. The hospital has since grown up around the mansion, leaving the campus landlocked.
Emergency patients have more than doubled over the past decade, and the NICU is “routinely full, dang near overflowing,” said Bob Ravenscroft, vice president and chief development officer of Bryan Health. He also cited the loss of obstetric services in more than 50 Nebraska counties. Mr. Ravenscroft said leaders ruled out demolition and found expanding elsewhere on campus too costly.
Officials are confident the home will retain its landmark status, though it must be reevaluated after the move. The mansion is set to become the centerpiece of an expanded Bryan College of Health Sciences, with administrative offices, a welcome center and student services. It is not expected to be occupied for a few years.
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