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The Hibiscus Motel, 1311 Simonton St., Key West. New, modern , quiet, fireproof, private beach, coffee bar, spacious lounge. A Colourpicture postcard publication. The DeWolfe and Wood Collection.
Completed in 1918 by the First National Bank of Danville, this 12-story "fireproof" building was built at a cost of $350,000, and remained the home of FNB until 1955. The bank occupied the first floor, mezzanine and lower level. Upper floors were occupied by the offices of doctros, dentists, lawyers, stock brokers, and loan companies.
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 2000, Bresee Tower looks like a structure that is in bad need of repair. Vacant since 2005, in recent years barricades were placed on the south and east sides of the tower due to concern over falling debris. Today strapping and plywood is seen on the exterior to limit the potential of falling pieces of terra cotta.
Over the past two years, work has been completed to deal with the most hazardous aspects of the structure. While the future of this landmark remains uncertain, restoring and converting the property into some type of mixed use space is a possibility.
The City of Danville is the seat of Vermilion County, and is located in East Central Illinois near the Indiana border. The population of Danville was 33,027 as of the 2010 census.
More photographs of Danville can be found in my "Danville IL" set.
The reality was in the limpet process, a lot of fibre did not stick. The sprayer worked in a heavy snow storm of dust and those below at the machine would be covered as well. This dust would drift all over the work site and no one seemed worried. When the water ran out in the “pot” the fibre would keep on blowing for the few seconds while the operator switched it off. Also at the start there was always some adjustment need to get the water – fibre mix just right. Every time there was a lot of fluffed up dry fibre drifting around.
I remember watching a snow storm of dust floating down from a city high rise onto Collins street (Melbourne) below.
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Filme EPR64. Tripla exposição. O garfo iluminado com lâmpada de 40 w azul; o detalhe do rosto com flash; a bolinha vermelha e amarela é uma palha de aço usada para lavar panelas ( a mesma usada em outras fotos desta galeria - "Estão servidos?", "Para um ovo que se quebrou") em que ateio fogo. Exposição em "B". Realizada em 1982.
Movie EPR64. Triple exposure. The fork illuminated by a blue lamp 40 watts, the detail of the face with a flash, the red dot and yellow steel wool used to wash pots (the same used in other photos gallery - "Estão servidos?", "Para um ovo que se quebrou") in which to fire. Exposure in "B". Held in 1982.
Established in 1930, this fireproof storage warehouse had a unique feature, a clocktower to illuminate the sky.
Rogers Hotel, 44 14th Street, Wheeling, West Virginia. Opened in 1914 as a first class hotel with 75 rooms. The hotel closed in January 1990. The building was condemned in 1994, but was not torn down and is currently being renovated.
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At Homosassa Springs, Fla., U.S. 19 and 98 - A new fireproof court, each unit thermostatically controlled electric heat and air-conditioning. Beautifully and attractively furnished. Easy lounging chairs in each unit. One block from Restaurant - in the heart of one of Florida's favorite fishing spots. Phone Homosassa Springs 3338 - Mr. and Mrs. James A. Miller, Owners and Managers.
The writing on the back says:
4/20/1955 - $6.00
Florida Speaks Co.
Koppel Card
4643
CAPA-004685
Baltimore and Calvert Sts.
Baltimore, Md.
Absolutely Fireproof
350 Rooms. Rooms with Bath - Two and a Half and Upwards.
Circulating Ice Water in Every Room.
CAPA-025277
After all these years rapid development, more and more people understand and know container houses the new buildings, and container house have been widely used in various site. Along with the wide application of container houses, we often can hear or see news about the houses on fire. These reports make those who originally have the desire to buy a container house doubt whether container houses be fireproofing. Can container house be safe?
First we learn about the common container house on the market at present, it is with light steel as the basic framework, all the roof and walls of container houses are made of rock wool sandwich board very good at fire prevention function. So we can see a little on this container house is a good fire prevention of the effect. But why there are so much more about reports of container houses on fire? It will have to talk about container houses have to pay attention to some of the problems in use process.
1. When in the use of the container house, some heat and fire source should be far away from container houses to keep a little far distance;
2. Wire and cable had better not cross through the core material, and should add protective casing if need, plug and switch box should use metal box and the bright outfit galvanized method;
3. Install some simple extinguishing appliances indoors, install fire alarm, convenient for people to evacuation as soon as possible.
Perhaps it is some consumers did not pay attention to these problems in use process that led to the container houses on fire. So whether we live in a commodity house or a container house, fire prevention is the most important, as long as we do fire prevention measures and related note better, I believe we will be away from the fire, to reduce the tragedy occurrence.
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James A. Garfield, the 20th president of the United States, made his home at Lawnfield from 1876 until his death in 1881. Here he conducted the first “front porch” presidential campaign, giving speeches from the verandah. The many reporters camped out on the lawns around the house gave the property its name. Garfield was a leader of the Radical Republicans in the House of Representatives when he received the nomination as a “dark horse” candidate for president in 1880. He began his presidency with attacks on political patronage and corruption, but his assassination by a deranged office-seeker cut short what might have been a vigorous administration. He was shot twice in the back on July 2, 1881, and endured two months in agony before dying on September 19.
Born in 1831 in a log cabin in Orange Township, Ohio, James A. Garfield surmounted poverty by hard work and study. He attended the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute (later Hiram College) and graduated from Williams College in Massachusetts, with honors. Strong interests in religion and education led Garfield to become a teacher, college principal, and lay preacher, all by the age of 28. He married Lucretia Rudolph, a childhood friend, in 1858; they would have five sons and two daughters. The same year he won a seat in the Ohio Senate, running on an anti-slavery platform. In 1861, he entered the United States army as a lieutenant colonel of volunteers. With no previous military experience, he advanced to brigadier-general by March 1862. Garfield was elected to the United States House of Representatives in November, 1862, but stayed with his troops until December, 1863, when the 38th Congress convened.
Garfield served 17 years in the House of Representatives. A leader of the Radical Republicans, he believed strongly in a stern Reconstruction and conservative hard money economic policies. He was one of many members of Congress peripherally involved in the scandals of the Grant Administration but emerged relatively unscathed. He also served as one of the Republicans on the commission that awarded Rutherford B. Hayes the presidency after the contested presidential election of 1876.
Garfield purchased his farm in Mentor, Ohio in 1876, while he served in the House of Representatives. He wanted a place where he could, “put my boys at work and teach them farming” and “where I can touch the earth and get some strength from it.” An enthusiastic farmer, he spent many hours conducting agricultural experiments. He soon began to expand the original one and one-half-story frame house on the property to accommodate his large family. Between 1877 and 1880, Garfield and his wife, Lucretia, enlarged their home from nine rooms to twenty, added a porch across the front, and refurnished the interior.
At the Republican Convention in June 1880, Garfield won the nomination for the presidency on the 36th ballot as a “dark horse” candidate. He conducted much of his successful and precedent-setting "front porch” campaign at Lawnfield. Garfield maintained an office in the main house, which Lucretia called his “Snuggery,” for private meetings and conversations. He converted a small building formerly used as his personal library into his campaign headquarters and equipped it with a temporary telegraph to send and receive messages, including the results of the election. He entertained an endless procession of visitors. The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad, whose tracks ran across the farm, routed special excursions to Mentor and set up a stop at Garfield Lane, the pathway leading to the house.
As president, Garfield hoped to reunite the Republican Party, which was split into two factions over personal differences and the distribution of political appointments. Much like his predecessor Garfield supported inquiries into corruption even among his own cabinet members, winning high marks from reformers. A scholar at heart, he sought to create a Federal department of education and served as a regent of the Smithsonian Institute. He did not live to achieve his hopes of reforming the civil service and fighting inflation. On July 2, 1881, only months after his inauguration, Charles Guiteau, a disgruntled office-seeker, shot Garfield twice in the back. After struggling for his life for two months, Garfield died on September 19.
Using money donated by the American public in memory of the martyred president, Mrs. Garfield transformed Lawnfield into a memorial to her husband, as well as a country estate and a place to enjoy her children and grandchildren. She added a new wing to the house that included a library and vault to protect her husband’s papers. The family continued to own Lawnfield until 1936, when they donated it to the Western Reserve Historical Society. The site today is managed by the National Park Service.
The first two floors have been restored to the period when the Garfields lived in the house. First floor rooms include an entrance hall and a reception hall, James and Lucretia Garfield’s summer bedroom, a parlor, dining room, and Grandma Eliza Garfield’s bedroom. A stairway from the hall leads up to the Memorial Library. White oak and an ornate beamed ceiling make this an impressive room, commemorating James A. Garfield’s love of books. Restored outbuildings include the library/campaign headquarters.
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Jet Air Conditioned, 100% Fireproof, soundproof, electric heat. Finest in city limits, on US 40 at 6635 E. Washington St. 30 Modern Units, Phone: Fleetwood 9-5100, Indianapolis, IN
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Diana Quality Multi-Color Post Card
S50968
CAPA-015767
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“Headquarters for automobiles with a fully equipped fireproof garage. Von Hamm-Young Co.”
Pacific commercial advertiser, August 17, 1906, Page 5
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29 AAA Approved, Fireproof, Heated, Modern Cottages
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Mailed from LaFollette, Tennessee to Mr. & Mrs. C.H Birch of Erie, Pennsylvania on September 16, 1947:
Darlings: We have gone 250 miles since we left Cincinnati. It rained all day. This place is miles from no place but the scenery is grand. Love, Jack
W.M. Cline
73872
CAPA-011759
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The Masonic Temple (1921) in Danville is located at 105 S. Union Street in the Danville Historic District [Virginia Department of Historic Resources ID 108-0111-065]. It is also listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Danville prospered for many years as a tobacco and textile center.
The building designed by West Virginia architect Fred F. Farris, cost $550,000 to build in 1921. It is fire-proof and was Danville’s first skyscraper; the styling is eclectic. It has two 10-story blocks of concrete and steel with a face of glazed, white architectural terra-cotta. The basic shape is in the form of a “U”. At the center of the “U” is a Tudor arched screen, a sculpted eagle crowning the entrance. Gothic ornamentation decorates the metal awning below the arch. Elaborate relief work follows the curved of the arch and is continued on both sides of the lobby entrance. The lobby ceiling had been dropped, hiding a barrel-vaulted skylight; but it will eventually be restored to its former state. Some nice relief work is above the doors to the elevators, the original ones installed at the time of construction.
At the base of the building are bays with Tudor arches containing various shops. A reason the building is so tall was to accommodate offices for various professionals—insurance companies, utilities, lawyers, doctors, dentists, etc. The styling of most floors is utilitarian, windows being 3 over 3; on the 9th floor the windows are taller and 6 over 6. Windows on the 10th level have Tudor arches between ornamented capitals
I was unable to tour the interior, which apparently has some spectacular rooms. I was fortunate enough to meet a member of the owner’s family, who provided some details on the structure. I was in Danville around 9 in the morning when these photos were taken; the lighting was not the best, but I wasn’t about to let the opportunity pass.
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A contractor sprays fireproofing material on the pillars, beams and girders in gallery 210 at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC, November 28, 2022. (Smithsonian photo by Jim Preston) [NASM2022-08090]
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King's Stanley is situated approximately two miles west of Stroud in the County of Gloucestershire, UK
Stanley Mill. Built in 1812 for the manufacture of woollen cloth. The main building was one of the first in England of "fireproof" construction, with iron columns.
1812 Present buildings begun
1813 Feb. Sold to Harris and Maclean for £8,655. Reference to new erected dyehouses, wool-lofts, woolstores, workshops, clothrooms, counting houses, etc. Canal accounts show delivery of stone, bricks, timber, iron and slates. Timber and some stone came from the Forest of Dean. The iron work was made by Benjamin Gibbons of the Earl of Dudley’s Level New Furnaces. This plant built in 1802-3 continued to run until 1954.
1824 First reference to a steam engine at Stanley.
1834 Maclean, Stephens and Co made superfine cloth and kerseymere.
1834. At Stanley, a steam engine of 40 hp. (bought from Boulton and Watt 1824) and 5 water wheels on a fall of 16 feet, equal to 200hp. The supply of water in summer was so irregular it caused interruptions in the work several hours a day.
All machinery considered dangerous was fenced off as far as was practicable. Hours worked, 11 to 12 and in some departments 13. No children under 9 were employed and very few under 10. The youngest, up to 12 or 13, were employed as piecers working up to 101/2 to 11 hours. The older ones worked 11 to 12 hours.
Refractory or disorderly children were dismissed.
1839. At Stanley, a steam engine of 50 hp. and 5 water wheels, 1 of 30hp. and 4 of 25 hp.
c. 1839 Sold to Nathaniel Marling for £27,000.
1854 Weaving shed built in front of main building, probably replacing an earlier building on the site.
1867 High pressure condensing engine installed.
1868 80hp. Turbine added.
Loft NYC: loft living project: "chateaux monroe" common area re-design. original artwork abounds in this loft re-design. Old elevator shaft to storage / laundry closet in between bathroom and kitchen.
From the rescued 45's "visual music" piece, to the inspiration corner, it's NYC artist living in full tilt.
AFTER SHOT: interior, art & photography: a. golden, eyewash design, NYC, April 2008
What you see:
Fireproof elevator shaft doors were stripped of 25 years of paint to their original metal cover. Repainted using chalkboard paint & covered in inspirational quotes instantly turned this boring corner into a feature. Used: aircraft solvent stripper (very heady stuff, be careful & make certain you have proper masks & ventilation!).
Floor: 1970's gray linoleum tiles covered with multi-layers of industrial-strength Behr indoor/outdoor porch paint with a polka-dot pattern. Sealed with eco-friendly polyurethane (unless you want to re-do the floors again, I don't recommend this product).
These low-cost treatments instantly changed what once appeared as "morgue floors", into a classic modern black-and-white motif design.
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Cameras encased in fireproof housings give the team with the Technology and Development Program a closer look at how fire shelters react to high intensity flames. (USDA Forest Service photo by Andrew Avitt)
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.... that anybody would think I lived in a falling down dump I figured I could allay any concern by posting a photo of my fireproof abode.
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Craigslist finds. Steelcase double pedestal tanker desk & a 50's General Fireproofing #2327 Goodform chair. Paid $80 for the desk and $50 for the chair.
ALBERT DOCK LIVERPOOL CITY CENTRE
At the time of its construction the Albert Dock was considered a state of the art docking system. Built almost entirely from cast iron, stone and brick, the Albert Dock was designed to be fireproof and upon completion was the world's first non-combustible warehouse system. It provided 1,290,000 square feet (120,000 m2) of warehouse space and its dock basin had a water area of 7.75 acres (3.14 ha). In its construction over 23 million bricks were used as well as 47,000 tonnes of mortar. In total it cost £782,265 (approximately £41m today), whilst today its estimated to be worth £230 million.
The building's design complements many existing construction techniques with, what were considered at the time, radical solutions. The warehouses are supported by large load-bearing walls that range from being 3 feet (0.91 m) in diameter at the base to 19 inches (480 mm) on the fourth level. One of the most advanced architectural features is the use of stressed skin roofing, which at the time of construction was virtually unheard of. Huge iron trusses are crossed with rivetted and galvanised wrought iron plates, creating a shape similar to an upturned boat hull that acts to support the roof above. The floors in the warehouses are supported by large iron columns and the spaces themselves were considered 'highly flexible', with the addition of new windows, stairwells and lift shafts being possible without any risk to the building's structural integrity.
Huge cast iron columns line the Albert Dock's quayside helping to support the building above
The advanced design stretches far beyond what is visible from the ground. Whilst the structures themselves are free from any wood, the foundations used to support them contain 13,729 piles of timber, which would stretch for 48 miles (77 km) in length if laid end to end. Such heavily supportive foundations were needed because the construction land was reclaimed from the River Mersey to build upon. Given the 'quicksand' nature of the Mersey's tidal silt the piles were needed to provide maximum stability. The resultant effect of the dock being constructed where it was is that the north and west stacks (now Merseyside Maritime Museum and Colonnades) rise and fall with every tide.
One of the most notable features of the Albert Dock are the huge cast iron columns that line the quayside. At 15 feet (4.6 m) high and almost 13 feet (4.0 m) feet in circumference, the columns are based upon the Greek Doric style of architecture. Hartley's decision to use cast iron was an economic one as at the time it was cheaper than granite. Nonetheless, because of the huge dock walls that were built, the Albert Dock's construction required so much granite that the dock trustee's had to open their own mine in Kirkcudbrightshire in Scotland. The quality of the build materials used as well as the docks sheer size are considered a strong illustration of the great prosperity that the Port of Liverpool afforded the city at the time and the building's style is described as cyclopean classicism.
Sakano family's residence, Jousou-shi(city) Ibaraki-ken(Prefecture), Japan
茨城県常総市(いばらきけん じょうそうし) 坂野家住宅（さかのけじゅうたく）
Melbourne, Florida is midway between Jacksonville and Miami, is on the Federal Highway No. 1. The Melbourne Hotel is a Fireproof Building with 72 rooms, with and without Bath, Steam Heat, Best of Accommodations, rates $1.59 and up.
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Mailed from Fort Pierce, Florida to Mr. Morris Barnes of Richmond, Kentucky on February 23, 1938:
Dear Morris,
You would surely enjoy a trip down here. You should have seen Junior do the big apple, when a big ocean wave came swelling in and wet him. He is having a big time. We went fishing yesterday and caught twenty-eight. Will be glad to see you all again. As ever, Clyde.
A C.T. Color-Photo-It by Curt Teich
Number: 1A-H220
CAPA-004138
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Sakano family's residence, Jousou-shi(city) Ibaraki-ken(Prefecture), Japan
茨城県常総市(いばらきけん じょうそうし) 坂野家住宅（さかのけじゅうたく）
This is the inside of a Nomex® III oven glove. Nomex is that funky, cream-colored material you see race-car drivers wearing underneath their leathers: it's a superb fireproof synthetic textile invented in the 1960s by Dr Wilfred Sweeny and manufactured by DuPont. Ordinary Nomex is a close chemical relative of Kevlar®; Nomex III is a blend of Nomex and Kevlar.
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Our guide Vladimir lights a candle in a separate (fireproof?) building erected specifically to provide a convenient place for all the pilgrims to light candles to Our Lady of Copacabana—and to leave graffiti, apparently.
The Basilica of Our Lady of Copacabana is a 16th-century Spanish colonial shrine. It houses the Virgin [Mary] of Candelaria (Virgen de Candelaria) statue carved out of wood by an Incan emperor’s grandson, Francisco Tito Yupanqui, in 1581. The statue has Incan features. Many cures and miracles have been attributed to the statue, including Bolivian independence in 1825. Our Lady of Copacabana is the patron saint of Bolivia. Construction of the current Basilica began in 1668. Although inaugurated in 1678, it was not completed until 1805. [Brazilian pilgrims returning home got caught in a storm at sea, prayed to the Virgin, landed safely on the Brazilian shore, and called that spot Copacabana in gratitude.]
On the shore of Lake Titicaca, Copacabana was an Inca outpost and place of worship prior to the arrival of the Spanish in 1534. The Basilica was built where once stood the main temple to Kotakawana, the god of fertility in ancient Andean mythology who was believed to live in Lake Titicaca.
Lake Titicaca (elev. 3,812m/12,507ft) on the border of Peru and Bolivia in the Andes is the largest alpine lake in the world and the largest lake in South America.
On Google Earth:
pavilion for lighting candles 16° 9'59.60"S, 69° 5'5.33"W
Cathedral 16° 9’58.77”S, 69° 5’7.61”W
Circa 1898 Munsey's Magazine (circulation 700,000) advertising copy reads --
THE MOHICAN is the best hotel in the world outside of a great center. It is built precisely as the Waldorf-Astoria is built, with steel construction, all thoroughly fireproofed. THE MOHICAN has 155 guest rooms. It was opened last summer. It then had 32 suites, with porcelain baths, but during the winter nearly 50 more baths have been added. THE MOHICAN has steam heat, electric lights and two passenger elevators.
ON EUROPEAN PLAN. ROOMS, $1.00 AND UPWARDS.
THE MOHICAN HOTEL gives its guests more comforts and more luxuries for a given sum of money than a like sum of money can buy anywhere else in the world. The table and table service is essentially as good as at Delmonico's and at one quarter of the price. THE MOHICAN is a strictly first class hotel in every respect -- a thoroughly modern, up to date hotel, just as much so as the Waldorf-Astoria. At THE MOHICAN one can be as comfortable and live as well as at the Waldorf-Astoria.
OFFICE ON EIGHTH STORY. -- Among the changes of the winter was the transferring of the office, dining room, cafe, kitchen and all to the top of the house -- the eighth story. This change makes THE MOHICAN strictly unique. There are hotels with dining rooms on the roof, but no hotels anywhere with office, reading room, barber shop and everything on the top. From the office and dining room the views are matchless. To the south is the Sound, teeming with pleasure craft and studded with its myriad islands; while to the north the Thames valley stretches away, replete with historic associations. Looking to the east, across the river is the Fort Griswold settlement. In the distance, a few miles to the southeast, is the famous Pequot colony, one of the most exclusive groupings of New England summer cottages.
THE PAVILION ON THE ROOF. -- An especially attractive feature of THE MOHICAN is the Pavilion on the Roof. Here is the Piazza of the hotel. It is a matchless place, always cool and delightful, with an unsurpassed view of town and country and Sound.
WHERE WILL YOU SPEND THE SUMMER? -- There is no better place anywhere than New London. It is a natural radiating point to many other resorts which have contributed to the popularity of the entire region as a resting place in vacation days. A vista of opportunities for delightful outings opens in every direction. Excursion boats run to and fro, carrying parties to Shelter Island, Sag Harbor, Watch Hill, Fisher's Island, Block Island, etc. It is only about an hour to Narragansett Pier, and a trifle more than this to Newport.
AN ILLUSTRATED DESCRIPTIVE BOOKLET showing floor plans, views of offices, principal rooms, etc., and also giving a quantity of interesting matter relating to New London and environs, will be mailed to any address on request.
THE MOHICAN HOTEL - - - - NEW LONDON, CONN.
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