Transform Chattanooga

Building the Rivebend House in eight days would not have been possible without more than 800 hours of service from nearly 200 volunteers.

Groups and Organizations who gave their time on the home include:

American Acceptance Mortgage

Bethel Bible Village

Cross of Christ Lutheran Church

Holston Gases

Invista

MODIS

Ooltewah United Methodist Church

Raymond James

Rivermont Presbyterian Church

Tennessee Valley Federal Credit Union

Unum

Youth Build Chattanooga

and a number of Individuals including Habitat homeowners, and

especially Don and Diane Barnes.

Alexia Taylor pauses for a moment to celebrate- her dream of homeownership is nearly here!

The moving team rolls the house onto its final location!

Here is a shot of the house taking the final turn to its destination!

Here is a shot of the house rolling towards Erlanger Hospital – glad I didn’t have to ride on the roof of the house the whole way like the member of the crew who was making sure that wire and traffic lights didn’t get caught on the house!

This image shows the crew from the Donald R. Payne Company in the process of connecting the lifting beam on their truck to the two steel beams resting under the house.