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Additional fireproofing has been installed during the Stent Hall construction project. Photo by Pete Zivkov.
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Coleman's iconic "Fireproof Depository" after being empty for decades (despite strange looking windows being put in the upper two floors, c2009) is being converted into flats.
Coleman's were established in Overton Street in 1875.
The corner of this building says "Established 1875. Rebuilt 1900".
1900 was presumably when this building was erected.
It took out a full page Advert in the 1902 Gore's Directory:
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There had been a similar warehouse on the site before that.
This is currently the highest building downtown. It is located directly east of the Marion County Courthouse & Federal Courthouse. One block north of Ocala's Downtown Square.
In 1980, this building was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
This former Marion Hotel building, today known as the Sovereign Building, was designed by the Philadelphia architectural firm of Peebles and Ferguson who designed a number of hotels throughout the south, including Hotel Lorraine and the Hotel Monticello in Norfolk, Virginia.
The hotel's builder was Day and Zimmerman, Inc. The costs of construction were completely financed by the sale of stock certificates to local citizens by the Community Hotel Corporation. Dr. James E. Chace, a former mayor of Ocala, and Horace L. Smith, Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, led the effort to have a first-class hotel erected in the city to accommodate tourists and traveling salesmen. A decision was made to construct a 100 room fireproof hotel and supporting structures. A method of financing the hotel was developed and the Hotel Committee of the Chamber of Commerce formed a Citizens Sales Organization with 140 volunteers who sold stock in the Community Hotel Corporation. Funding for construction was raised in less than six weeks, for a total amount of $500,000, with most of the shares being purchased by local residents.
The design of the seven-story concrete and steel hotel included stucco walls, with decorative Spanish elements. A central tower rises above the top floor of the main block flanked by two-story wings. At the time of completion, an automobile garage for the use by guests, the Hotel Marion Garage, was also erected adjacent to the main structure.
The hotel opened with a gala celebration in early March of the year 1927 with 300 people in attendance. When the hotel first opened it was managed by Griner Corporation, of which movie actor Thomas Meighan and Governor John W. Martin served on the Board of Directors.
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
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www.emporis.com/buildings/241684/sovereign-building-ocala...
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Certain building maintenance staff and other trades personnel may recognize this scenario when entering above a suspended ceiling system, where suspect debris may be present, in this case fallout from overhead spray-applied fireproofing.
Does the fireproofing debris contain asbestos? Does the suspended ceiling panel material contain asbestos? Are there any other asbestos-containing materials identified or not that may exist in the interstitial ceiling space?
Does your building have an asbestos inspection report to reference, as typically required by law?
The former David Fireproof Storage Warehouse, 3240 West Lawrence Avenue, in Chicago's Albany Park neighborhood. Completed in 1916.
Late 19Th Century fireproof warehouse associated with the international port city of Liverpool
Grade 2 Listed Building.
Cheapside,Liverpool
Image depicting partial back-side angled view of labeled, sample section of asbestos wood paneling: 1/4" asbestos-cement sheet clad with thin, finished wood veneer laminate. Inset picture shows closer detail of the thin, fibrous asbestos core with wood veneer.
This building material resembles ordinary 1/4" thin sheet 4' x 8' wood wall panels, but with fire retardant asbestos core.
Asbestos inspectors and surveyors: Is that "wood" wall panel really wood?
El Paso, TX, est. 1873, pop. (2015) 679,000 • Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, est. 1659, pop. 1.4MM) • El Paso-Juárez Metropolitan Area, pop. 2.7 MM • Life on the Line, NY Times Magazine
• the 809-seat "fireproof" theater [early photo] is an early example of Moorish Revival architecture, which became popular in the U.S. in late 1920s • the 3-story structure is decorated with arabesque tracery & Islamic calligraphy • the engaged columns separating the windows are reminiscent of the medieval Alhambra palace complex, Granada, Spain —Texas Trost Society • Henry C. Trost Historical Organization
• owners Rodolfo & Manuel Cruz spent an astonishing $150K ($3.5MM in 2016 dollars) to construct the theatre, apparently all of it their own money • they had made their 1st fortune after gold & silver were discovered in 1903 near their hometown, Guazapares, Chihauhua, Mexico • they promptly engaged in silver mining, first at the Rio de Plata mine, then following up with the Cleopatra & Santa Barbara mines, selling the latter in 1906 for $350K (roughly $9MM in 2016 dollars) • after the Cruz brothers moved to El Paso, Rodolfo — before devoting himself to the Alhambra — established a real estate business, having had previous experience in Chihuahua Mexico, where he built of the c. 1909 Rodolfo Cruz Building
• the Alhambra was designed as a playhouse for live theater, vaudeville & silent films by Henry C. Trost (1860-1933), Trost & Trost, El Paso • it was equipped with a $45K evaporative cooling system • mothers could check their children with a nurse at the "baby's rest room," which had 8 small cots • the adjoining "women's rest room" offered telephones, desks, stationery, mirriors, etc.
• the Cruzes catered to the El Paso's Mexican refugee community, of which they were members, having arrived in 1911 • consisted largely of immigrants who had fled the Mexican Revolution • the theater also served English-speaking audiences & Mexicans who lived across the border in Ciudad Juárez (economy fares for border crossings were readily available)
• Rodolfo (b. 1876) actively managed the theater and signed performers; Manuel (b. 1883) kept the books • when vaudeville acts delivered disappointing box-office, Rodolfo substituted light opera with music performed by the Alhambra Orchestra, Prof. Ernesto Gonzalez conducting
• in 1917 Rodolfo — often seen motoring around town in his 2-tone gray & black Cartercar Roadster — reportedly sold his underperforming $150K theater for $200K to his lawyer, P.E. "Pete" Gardner, who later flipped it for a suspiciously low $70K • Gardner, allegedly a member of the Ku Klux Klan, ran for Mayor of El Paso in 1923 & lost to R.M. Dudley, who had made Gardner's Alhambra deals — not to mention his association with the KKK — campaign issues • after selling the theatre, Rodolfo Cruz resumed selling real estate
• Dudley Beats K.K.K. by 2,120 —El Paso Times, 25 Feb, 1923 • Ku Klux Klan Had a Short Life in El Paso —EPCC Libraries • Ku Klux Klan in El Paso Texas
• the theater reopened under new management as a straight moving picture house • in 1918 a pipe organ — then said to be the largest in the southwestern U.S. — was installed to accompany the exhibition of silent photoplays • the 2nd floor housed a "refreshment parlor/dance hall called Rest-A-Whyle, which replaced the original confectionery/tea room • renamed Palace Theatre, "Home of Paramount Pictures," 1920 • by the 1970s exhibited adult movies • façade restored, 1987 • since 1990 has mainly housed a series of nightclubs —Cinema Treasures
• National Register # 80004109, 1980
Example of a decades-old product carton labeled as containing asbestos snow drift "Christmas Decoration".
Appearing as bright white, fluffy artificial snow and touting "fireproof" qualities once made chrysotile asbestos an "ideal" material for seasonal applications around potential fire-hazards such as heat-generating holiday lights and candle decorations.
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One example of many types of asbestos spray-applied fireproofing. This material is similar in some ways to once popular fireproofing brands, such as: Monokote (by WR Grace).
This particular material contains a low-percentage of asbestos (about 1-2%) as well as gold-colored vermiculite flakes. The inset image shows glittery vermiculite flakes interspersed within the installed material. The fireproofing is beige-to-tan and semi-dense as installed in intact condition. However, the fireproofing tends to feel lightweight, soft and crumbly to the touch or if dislodged from place.
This image shows an example of the fireproofing as installed on structural steel support members in relatively intact condition. Of special note is the observation of significant splatter or "overspray" pattern that appears on the adjacent corrugated deck surface.
Further consideration about this fireproofing is offered regarding the possibility that crumbly bits of its debris may be present within the underlying hollow concrete block cells and inside column cavities. Renovation and demolition personnel should take special precautions when working around such conditions.
One type of friable asbestos-containing spray-applied fireproofing, shown applied onto structural steel members in a high-rise office building.
Often hidden above suspended ceiling systems and behind wall finishes, these ACM-coated components are usually "out of sight, out of mind", until they're not.
Do you know what's above you're ceiling?
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Example of asbestos fireproofing applied at ceiling deck area showing "overspray" on adjacent pipe conduit.
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Peculiarities of American Cities by Captain Willard Glazier
PHILADELPHIA: HUBBARD BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, No. 723 Chestnut Street. 1886
CHAPTER IX. CHICAGO. [excerpt]
Chicago Redivivus should bear upon her shield a cow rampant. On the evening of the eighth of October, 1871, Mrs. Scully's cow kicked herself into history, and Chicago into ruin and desolation. Chicago is divided by the river and its branches into three different sections, known as the north, south and west sides. The principal business portion of the city is on the south[Pg 164] side, and along the margins of the lake and streams. The "burnt district," which even yet the Chicagoan will outline to the visitor with peculiar pride, was confined almost wholly to the south and north sides.
On the evening of October seventh a planing mill had caught fire on the west side, and the conflagration had spread over a territory embracing about twenty acres, destroying a million dollars' worth of property. This fire, terrible as it seemed, probably saved the west side from destruction on that fatal night of the eighth, imposing as it did a broad banner of desolation, when the flames essayed to leap across the river.
BURNING OF CHICAGO. THE WORLD'S GREATEST CONFLAGRATION.
At about nine o'clock in the evening of Sunday, October eighth, 1871, a cow kicked over a lantern among loose, dry hay, in a stable at or near the corner of Jefferson and DeKoven streets, on the west side. There had been no rain of any consequence for fourteen weeks, and roofs and wooden buildings were as dry as tinder. There was a strong wind blowing from the southwest, and before the engines could reach the spot, half a dozen adjoining buildings were wrapped in flames. The buildings of that quarter were mostly of wood, and there were several lumber yards along the margin of the river. The flames swept through these with resistless fury, and then made a bold and sudden leap across the river into the very heart of the business portion of the south side. Many of the buildings here also were of wood, while the wooden sidewalks, and wooden block pavements, the latter filled with an inflammable composition, seemed constructed especially to aid and hasten the work of the flames. The fire marched steadily toward the north and east, [Pg 165]destroying everything in its course. Even fireproof buildings seemed to melt down as it touched them.
The wind increased to a gale, and all night long the fire wrought its terrible will, like a devouring demon; and at sunrise it had already leaped the narrow barrier of the river, and was devastating the northern side, sweeping away block after block of the wooden structures which occupied to a large extent that quarter of the city. The flames seized upon the shipping in the river, and when it left it only blackened hulls remained. The water supply, upon which the city had founded hopes in case of such extremity, failed. The walls of the buildings, weakened by the overpowering heat, had fallen in upon the engines, and hope was quenched in that quarter.
The flames spread southward as far as Taylor street, and to the northward they only paused when, at Fullerton avenue, the broad prairie lay before them, and there was nothing more to burn. The track of the fire was nearly five miles in length, running north and south, and averaged a mile in width. It continued from nine o'clock on Sunday night until daybreak Tuesday morning, and then nothing was left of all the business portion of Chicago, save a vast blackened field on which the flames still smouldered, with piles of rubbish, formed by fallen buildings, and here and there portions of walls still standing. Every bank, insurance office, hotel, theatre, railroad depot, law office, newspaper office, most of the churches, all but one of the wholesale stores, and many of the warehouses and retail stores, six elevators, fifty vessels, and sixteen thousand dwellings, including many elegant mansions, besides numberless humble homes, were destroyed; two hundred persons[Pg 166] killed, and a hundred thousand people suddenly found themselves homeless and penniless, without food to eat or clothes to wear.
The scenes accompanying the fire were terrible and heart-rending. They were a mingling of the horrible and grotesque, the tragic and the ridiculous, such as was probably never witnessed before on so grand a scale, and we trust will never be repeated; and over it all the smoke hung like a pall, stifling and blinding, and the flames cast a baleful glare, which lit up the scene and made it seem like a literal inferno.
The fire spread with a rapidity which baffled all attempts to check it. Many made a feeble effort to save their household goods, an effort which was too often futile, while others barely escaped with their lives, clad only in their scant night garments. The streets were filled with a frantic multitude; vehicles of every description, laden with movable property; men, women and children, some of them burdened with their belongings, and others nearly naked, forgetful of all but the terrible danger of the hour, all wild with the insanity born of fear, and all fleeing from the pursuing demon which pressed on behind them, and whose hot breath scorched their garments and singed their hair. Many took refuge in the river or the lake; but the hissing flames stooped down and licked the water, and the poor victims were made to feel the tortures of a double death. Very few of these escaped with their lives.
The progress of the flames was so swift that many were overwhelmed by the crumbling walls of their houses or workshops before they had time to escape, and found in them a fiery tomb. Others were suffocated by the smoke. Children were separated from[Pg 167] parents, and young and old sought safety wherever they could find it, and a mad panic reigned everywhere. Many saloons were thrown open, and whisky flowed freely, and the turbulent riot of drunkenness was added, to increase the confusion and despair of the dreadful night. Sneak thieves and larger depredators found spoil on every hand. In this terrible calamity each one seemed to throw off his mask, and become what he really was—the brave man, the noble gentleman, the selfish coward, the bully or the thief.
A single leaf of a quarto Bible, charred around its edges, was all that was left of the immense stock of the Western News Company. It contained the first chapter of the Lamentations of Jeremiah, which begins with the following words: "How doth the city sit solitary that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary! She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her."
The amount lost by the insurance companies, American and foreign, by the Chicago fire, was $88,634,133. More than 2,200 acres were swept by the flames in the space of thirty hours. The value of buildings alone consumed was estimated at $75,000,000, while their contents were at least as much more. The total loss probably was not much less than $200,000,000.
No sooner had the news of the dreadful calamity gone abroad to the world, than the spirit of generosity prompted efficient aid from all quarters. St. Louis, Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Cleveland, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Montreal, cities and towns in[Pg 168] the north, south, east and west, sent generous, and some of them princely, donations. Even China forwarded $1,290. By December first the public cash donations had reached $2,508,000. The naked were clothed, the hungry fed, the homeless housed in at least temporary quarters, and Chicago set herself to the task of reconstruction.
The smouldering ruins were yet glowing with heat, and the smoke was still ascending here and there, when, on Wednesday morning, the work of regeneration began. Within a month, five or six thousand temporary tenements had been erected. Meantime the foundations for the permanent structures were being laid, on a scale far surpassing those of the past. In a year not a trace of the fire remained.
Nearly three years later, on July fourteenth, 1874, another great fire swept over the devoted city, destroying eighteen blocks, or sixty acres, in the heart of the city, and about $4,000,000 worth of property. Over six hundred houses were consumed, but by far the larger number were mere wooden shanties.
To-day Chicago counts her great fire as one of her chief blessings. The city is entirely rebuilt, but not with rickety wooden structures, the previous plenitude of which had rendered her so easy a prey to the devouring element. Solid, substantial, handsome, and in many instances magnificent, the stranger can scarcely realize that these blocks of buildings are not the growth of a century, or of a generation even, but have sprung from the ground almost in a night. The new Chicago is surpassingly beautiful and grand. The visitor will walk through squares and squares of streets, each teeming with life and commercial activity, and bearing no trace,[Pg 169] save in increased elegance, of the disaster of little more than a decade ago; and is forced to the conclusion that, for courage and enterprise, Chicago has proved herself unsurpassed by any city in the world.
Chicago has a water frontage of thirty-eight miles, of which twenty-four are improved, without including the lake front, where an outer harbor is in process of construction. The rivers are now spanned by thirty-five drawbridges, while a tunnel, 1,608 feet long, with a descent of forty-five feet, connects the south and west sides of Washington street, and another tunnel, with a total length of 1,854 feet, connects the north and south sides on the line of La Salle street.
State street, on the south side, is the Broadway of Chicago. Randolph street is famous for its magnificent buildings, among which are the city and the county halls. Washington street is one of the fashionable promenades, lined with retail stores, though Dearborn street closely rivals it. The United States Custom House and Post Office, a magnificent structure, costing upward of $5,000,000, occupies the square bounded by Clark, Adams, Jackson and Dearborn streets. The Chamber of Commerce, a spacious and imposing building, with elaborate interior decorations, is at the corner of Washington and La Salle streets, opposite City Hall Square. Its ceiling is frescoed with allegorical pictures representing the trade of the city, the great fire and the rebuilding. The Union Depot, in Van Buren street, at the head of La Salle, is among the finest buildings of the city. The Exposition Building is a vast ornate structure of iron and glass, occupying the lake front, extending from Monroe to Jackson street, and with a front of eight hundred feet on Michigan avenue. The centre of[Pg 170] the edifice is surmounted by a dome one hundred and sixty feet high and sixty feet in diameter. Annual expositions of the art and industry of the city are held here every autumn.
Among the hotels of Chicago the Palmer House takes the lead. This house was destroyed by the fire, but has been rebuilt with a magnitude and elaborateness far exceeding its former self, and constituting it one of the finest, if not the finest, in the world. It is entirely fireproof, being constructed only of incombustible materials, brick, stone, iron, marble and cement. It has three fronts, on State and Monroe streets and Wabash avenue, and the building and furnishing cost $3,500,000. It is kept on both the American and European plans, and continually accommodates from six hundred to one thousand guests. The Grand Pacific Hotel is but little inferior to the Palmer House. It occupies half the block bounded by Jackson, Clark, Adams and La Salle streets. The Sherman and Tremont Houses are fine hotels and centrally located.
There are about three hundred churches in Chicago, including those untouched by fire and those which have been since rebuilt. The great Tabernacle, on Monroe street, where Messrs. Moody and Sankey held their meetings, is used for sacred concerts and other religious gatherings, and will seat ten thousand persons.
Minor asbestos fireproofing debris can be seen on HVAC duct below I-beam; all concealed above suspended ceiling system.
Looking closely at structural steal I-beam lower flange edge and underlying surface following removal of asbestos fireproofing, one observes unsatisfactory residual asbestos dust and debris, requiring additional cleaning.
View of wall substrate portion constructed with non-asbestos "PYROBAR" gypsum block and asbestos-containing mortar; confirmed via lab analyses. Product label indicates "USGCo" and "Reg. U.S. Pat. Off." (United States Gypsum Company, Registered with the United States Patent Office).
USG reportedly claims PYROBAR has never been manufactured with asbestos. Although, when the material shouts "old, chalky, white, and fibrous" and with a fire-protection name like "PYROBAR" it's undeniably regarded as one of the main "suspects" during asbestos surveys when it's present. However, after sampling this material (and competitor gypsum-block analogs) several hundred times, in a variety of structures from multiple eras and different parts of the country, the lab results have always been consistent: no asbestos detected (wood fibers only).
But, on occasion, Pyrobar mortar sometimes has been found to contain a small percentage of asbestos; possibly required by certain construction specifications or was used as a premium mortar-mix ingredient.
Example of spray-applied fireproofing material on building's ceiling deck and a structural member, from an early 1980's construction. Obviously suspect, but subsequent analytical testing indicated this particular material did not contain asbestos.
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Example of non-asbestos spray-applied fireproofing material, shown as installed on ceiling/roof deck and associated structural trusses. Bulk samples of the suspect surfacing material were analyzed via PLM to determine absence of asbestos.
Base of structural steel column at floor level showing damage to friable fireproofing with subsequent dust and debris.
HDR image I took a while back :) I used Photomatix pro to edit it.
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