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Iconic NJ beach house ready to sail to L.I.

BARNEGAT LIGHT, N.J. - An iconic Jersey shore beach house, saved from the wrecking ball, is due to float away today to its new home on Long Island.

Architects Robert Venturi, left, and Denise Scott Brown look on this morning as the Lieb House, which they designed in the 1960s, is loaded onto a barge for its move from Barnegat Light, N.J., to its new home on the North Shore of Long Island.
Architects Robert Venturi, left, and Denise Scott Brown look on this morning as the Lieb House, which they designed in the 1960s, is loaded onto a barge for its move from Barnegat Light, N.J., to its new home on the North Shore of Long Island.Read moreAKIRA SUWA / Staff Photographer
    by Wayne Parry, Associated Press
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BARNEGAT LIGHT, N.J. - An iconic Jersey shore beach house, saved from the wrecking ball, is due to float away today to its new home on Long Island.

The so-called Lieb House, designed by famed architect Robert Venturi and his wife Denise Scott Brown, was lifted on a barge in Barnegat Light and workers prepared it for a 95-mile waterborne trip. It's due to arrive in Glen Cove, N.Y. on Friday.

New owners Deborah Sarnoff and Robert Gotkin plan to use it as a guest cottage. They already live in another house designed by the famed architects, and feel the two structures would be perfect together.

The price? One dollar. But it will cost an additional $100,000 to get it there.

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    Wayne Parry, Associated Press