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A College Senior Is Building This Gooseneck Tiny House In A Parking Lot

This post was updated on May 10th, 2015

Sarah fifth wheel
Michael S. Gordon / The Republican

Sarah Hastings’ is building a gooseneck house for her senior project. And not just any gooseneck house – a timber framed one.

The Mount Holyoke College architectural studies major decided in only her sophomore year that she wanted to design and construct her own tiny house on wheels.

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Right now the trailer sits behind a garage on her school’s parking lot while she finishes construction.

Most tiny houses are built on an 8 foot wide by 20 foot long trailer. Sarah opted for a larger design (200 square feet) on a gooseneck trailer with a gooseneck hitch. Many folks feel that a gooseneck trailer is safer to pull than a bumper-hitch trailer, and Sarah has yet to decide on a tow vehicle for it.

I will live in it permanently when I graduate. I am searching for land right now, mostly in the Amherst/ Hadley/ NoHo area.

View more pictures and read an extended interview with Sarah at this link…

MASS Live: Mount Holyoke senior invites public to view her ‘tiny house on wheels’

Note: If that link doesn’t work, here’s an archived copy of Sarah’s interview.

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