OAKLAND — A little white house in North Oakland listed as free if hauled away has found a taker.

The two-bedroom home will be on the move Sunday before sunrise, ending its storied 81-year stay at the corner of 52nd Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way. It became known as the tiny home surrounded in the shadows of UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland because its former owner refused to sell to his hospital neighbors.

Although its story is something pulled from the script of Pixar’s “Up,” balloons will not lift the home from its location at 52nd Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way.

A flatbed truck driver will have the task of guiding the home a block away to its new location, 817 51st St.

Yet the fact that the home avoided a wrecking ball and is staying in the neighborhood is an ending previous owner Lawrence Bossola would have liked, his friend Al Gavello said this week.

“He’d be very happy about it, I’m sure,” said 86-year-old Gavello, Bossola’s godson.

Built in 1934, Bossola and his parents were the first owners of the home at 5204 Grove St. (renamed Martin Luther King Jr. Way), moving in when Bossola was a teenager. The years brought new neighbors, BART running on elevated tracks steps from the front yard, and growth of Children’s Hospital. On one side of the home is a parking garage, behind the home an outpatient center and across the street the main hospital.

But in the years after his parents died, Bossola refused to sell the property to the hospital, even telling a fib or two to keep them away, Gavello said.

“Larry kept saying ‘no’ for a long time,” Gavello said. “His mother was there, he said, ‘My mother is ill and she doesn’t want to move and I’m not in the position to sell the house.’ Actually, his mother had been dead for 10 years. He kept using that for an excuse. He just didn’t want to move is all.”

He never did. Bossola died in 2002 at 87. Gavello, as executor of his estate, sold the home a year later to the hospital for $325,000.

But $300,000 of the sale went to establish a scholarship in Bossola’s name at the Colombo Club, a North Oakland Italian social club. Gavello and his brother chipped in $100,000 each to the scholarship. A check of $25,000 also went to the hospital.

For the past 12 years, the hospital has used the home as an administrative office, but now needs the space to expand its outpatient services. Because it is not historic, it could have been torn down, but the hospital and neighbors wanted to see it saved, said Doug Nelson, executive director of development and construction for the hospital. So they put out an advertisement: free house if the new owner pays to move it.

“We never wanted to demo it, we were pretty aggressive to find someone so we threw in a $20,000 sweetener,” Nelson said.

Calls came in from all over Northern California but the lucky new owners of the home went to David Stone and John Barsky, who plan on moving it to their property on 51st Street behind a four-plex they own.

Stone, who runs a tax and real estate business on Piedmont Avenue, said they will end up paying $200,000 total for the move, a new foundation, and fees.

“I’m not complaining,” Stone said. “We wouldn’t be taking it if we didn’t think it was a good deal.”

With a police escort, the home will make its way down Martin Luther King Jr. Way and through a hospital parking lot to be dropped at the back of Stone’s property on 51st Street.

In its place, the hospital is building a six-story, 89,000-square-foot outpatient center where cardiology, physical rehabilitation, neurology and other clinics will be housed, the first project in a 10-year plan to upgrade the growing hospital’s facilities.

David DeBolt covers breaking news. Contact him at 510-208-6453. Follow him at Twitter.com/daviddebolt.