As Frostbite Music Society president Michael Bellon continues his fight to save the historic Krautschneider House, city staff have been tasked with researching previous plans for the building to be located in Shipyards Park.

"It was contained in the plan perhaps at one time," Mayor Bev Buckway said in an interview last Thursday afternoon.

The early-1900s era house, owned by Frostbite, was moved to the Department of Highways and Public Works yard in Marwell in 1999.

With the territory planning to do work to its yard this year, the building now has to be moved again, with Bellon trying to find a site.

The Miles Canyon Historic Railway Society turned down a plan earlier this summer that would have seen it moved to its land at Kopper King because it decided it didn't have the money or resources for it.

Bellon said Thursday he was pleased with a meeting he had with the city last week and hopes it may assist with having it moved to Shipyards Park.

While the society was originally set to base its headquarters out of the house in Shipyards Park, it ended up instead with the Chambers House (which provided better space for the group) in the park.

Bellon still believes Krautschneider House should be there too.

"That's where it should go," he said, noting the unique home puts a smile on his face each time he looks at it because it is so "whimsical".

While Bellon described the issue as now being on the city's agenda, Buckway noted at this point staff have simply been given the job of going through an earlier plan for the park to see if indeed it included the house.

"It's certainly not in the current plan," she said, adding that such plans often change with time.

It's also unknown just how long it will take staff to go through the old plan, with workers having to find time between other projects to do so, though Buckway said hopefully there could be an answer within the next month.

Just whether a recommendation will come forward to council from that is also unknown.

"It's obviously something the planning department would have to take a big look at," Buckway said.

Council would also have to consider it along with any financial costs that may come with either assisting with the move or the ongoing costs from having it in the park.

"Our dollars are stretched as they are," Buckway said.

The house formerly occupied the corner of Second Avenue and Strickland Street.