Next incarnation of the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree: the wooden frame of a house in Upstate New York.
The holiday landmark was taken down overnight and trucked to a lumber yard, where the 78-foot-tall Norway spruce will carved up and then donated to Habitat for Humanity of Greater Newburgh.
Donating lumber from the Rockefeller tree has been a tradition for nearly a decade.
“The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree is a gift that keeps giving." said Jonathan Reckford, CEO of Habitat for Humanity International. "It brings joy to people during the holiday season, which continues as it becomes part of a Habitat home,”
The 2014 tree was milled into two-by-four and two-by-six pieces and was used to help frame five homes in Philadelphia. Lumber from previous trees has been used in the construction of homes in Pascagoula, Mississippi; Stamford, Connecticut; Newburgh, New York; Morris, New Jersey; and New York City.
