friend of mine bought a house 3 blocks up from mine in the historical district.
Has a huge cast-iron bitch of a safe in the basement. Massive thing, about the size of a refrigerator.
Says something like "Johnson Bros Safe Company, Chicago, 1897"
He wanted to have it removed when he finished the basment into a family/game room. Called some people to haul it off... they said they couldn't get it up the stairs cause it would have been too heavy, and too wide to go up the staircase.
They said they would have to cut a hole in the floor and hoist it out with a crane.
They think it was placed in the basement when the house was built 100 years ago, and the house built around it, cause they have no idea how they would have gotten it down there otherwise.
Fred