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Presbyterian Church Parish House, 921 Madison Avenue, New York, New York(James Gamble Rogers : 1916)
"7-sty fireproof parish house, 47×100"
The steelwork for the North side of the site will be going up soon , all the ground bolts are now in place
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These were wooden doors when the apartment was being previewed. After we signed the lease, it turned out the doors were covered - sloppily, too! - with 2mm steel to make them fireproof. WHY didn't they do it on the outside?! Sigh...
The fire-proof 'strong room' at the former Land Titles Office building in Queen Street, Melbourne. Constructed in 1874-1879, this building has not been used for decades. The complex is now owned by the Victoria University of Technology.
Some of the features include slate shelving and fireproof flooring.
Seen as part of Melbourne Open House
The Mercer Tile Factory, a "working museum" where reproductions of his famous tiles are still being made today. Like his home (and only a stroll away from it), the factory is made of concrete so it would be fireproof.
Mary's Fireproof Hotel
Construction of the "fire proof" hotel began in 1922 by the House of David colony. The building is empty, abandoned, and for sale.
From this picture the appearance looks like a dull gray. Up close the surface sparkles in the sun. The special bricks used in the walls were cast of "Hematite," a special form of concrete made of 17 different minerals.
Kirk Fireproof building (demolished) formerly located at the corner of West Fayette and South Salina, Syracuse, NY.
photo from the Historic American Building Survey at the Library of Congress
Andy Napier of WMBW with Jim McBride, Executive Pastor of Sherwood Baptist and also Executive Producer of Fireproof, and Ken Bevel who played Lt. Michael Simmons in Fireproof.
Vanderbilt insisted that The Breakers be made as fireproof as possible. Steel trusses support the masonry and exterior Indiana limestone blocks. The finished floors are of marble, tile, terrazzo, and mosaic.
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The home was constructed between 1893 and 1895 at a cost of more than $12 million (approximately $310 million in today's dollars).
It is the most-visited attraction in Rhode Island with approximately 300,000 visitors annually.
The Breakers is the grandest of Newport's summer "cottages" and a symbol of the Vanderbilt family's social and financial preeminence in turn of the century America.
In 1893, Vanderbilt commissioned architect Richard Morris Hunt to design the villa. Hunt directed an international team of craftsmen and artisans to create a 70 room Italian Renaissance- style palazzo inspired by the 16th century palaces of Genoa and Turin. Allard and Sons of Paris assisted Hunt with furnishings and fixtures, Austro-American sculptor Karl Bitter designed relief sculpture, and Boston architect Ogden Codman decorated the family quarters.
The Vanderbilts had seven children. Their youngest daughter, Gladys, who married Count Laszlo Szechenyi of Hungary, inherited the house on her mother's death in 1934. An ardent supporter of The Preservation Society of Newport County, she opened The Breakers in 1948 to raise funds for the Society. In 1972, the Preservation Society purchased the house from her heirs. Today, the house is designated a National Historic Landmark.
To this day members of the Szechenyi family use the third floor as a private residence - which is not open to the public.
My great, great Aunt Bessie and her husband Wesley stayed at the Hotel Vendig in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during their honeymoon in 1926.
They brought home these postcards from their visit.
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Written on the back of the postcards were the features of the hotel and rooms:
European Plan
Absolutely Fireproof
Special Sample Rooms
Every room has a bath or shower
Running ice water an
Electric ceiling fan.
View of the side of the Log House on the Pioneer Farmstead, where you can see the portion of the wall which was made of solid stone masonry, to provide a fireproof back for the hearth. This type of masonry was a characteristic of other early log homes in the Genesee Country. The wooden chimney was clay-lined. Located in the Pioneer Settlement section at the Genesee Country Village & Museum, 1410 Flint Hill Road (George Street) in Mumford, NY.
Judith and Laura posing on the rocks adjoining the lake..
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"Fireproof" bible study for couples held at the Ho's cottage.
"160 Outside Fireproof Rooms, all with bath. Coffee Shop and Dining Room; also the home of the Crystal Room. 'Sleep in safety and comfort without extravagance.'"
Why not the "Fighting Quints:? Postcard from Aberdeen, birthplace of the US's first set of surviving quintuplets, the Fisher quints.
Must've been sometime in 1963 or 1964
112-120 W. 107th St. New York. 1986.
Plans for a building at 112-122 W. 107th St. were filed with the New York City Dept. of Buildings in 1915 for a 2 & 9-sty brick, fireproof garage and warehouse, 100×97, by Chelsea Storage Warehouses, Inc., Louis Schramm, president / 426 West 26th St. The architects were Wortmann & Braun / 114 East 28th St. ("Manhattan NB Database 1900-1986," (10 March 2010), www.MetroHistory.com).
This building currently (March 2010) houses a Manhattan Mini Storage location. The sign still existed in 2005, which was the last time I photographed it. See www.flickr.com/photos/wgrooch/4426979849/
Current (March 2010) Hahn Bros. website is www.hahnbros.com/ They have an address in Jersey City, New Jersey, but google maps did not show an actual storage facility at this address.
The architects Wortmann & Braun designed the Royal Castle Apartments, 20-30 Gates Ave., Brooklyn (1911-12), an officially designated New York City landmark.
Established in 1930, this fireproof storage warehouse had a unique feature, a clocktower to illuminate the sky.
bluetan presents 'WOODHULL'
a group exhibition of paintings, photographs, works on paper and collaborative installation at Brooklyn FireProof. Featuring Geoff Henshall, Steve Chellis, Joe Strasser, Joseph O'Neal and Brandon Fonville with a special performance by SoftSpot
Thursday, November 15, 2012
7pm - 11pm
Brooklyn FireProof
119 Ingraham Street., Brooklyn, NY
My great, great Aunt Bessie and her husband Wesley stayed at the Hotel Vendig in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during their honeymoon in 1926.
They brought home these postcards from their visit.
__________________________________________
Written on the back of the postcards were the features of the hotel and rooms:
European Plan
Absolutely Fireproof
Special Sample Rooms
Every room has a bath or shower
Running ice water
Electric ceiling fan.
A 365 project (one photo for each day of 2013) to show you Des Moines, Iowa. By Darren Montufar.
The Northwestern Hotel, opened in 1916 (closed in 1983) was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
My great, great Aunt Bessie and her husband Wesley stayed at the Hotel Vendig in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during their honeymoon in 1926.
They brought home these postcards from their visit.
__________________________________________
Written on the back of the postcards were the features of the hotel and rooms:
European Plan
Absolutely Fireproof
Special Sample Rooms
Every room has a bath or shower
Running ice water
Electric ceiling fan.
The "fireproof" Winecoff Hotel opened at Peachtree and Ellis Streets in downtown Atlanta in 1913 -- at 16 stories, it was then the tallest hotel in the city.
On December 7, 1946, it burned, killing 119 people. It's stood empty ever since.
Georgia Tech student Arnold Hardy took a famous photo of a woman jumping from the hotel; it won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize, making Hardy the first amateur photographer to do so.
And the Winecoff fire was instrumental in spurring the nationwide adoption of fire codes, fire escapes, and sprinkler systems in hotels.
A kura is a storehouse for merchants and private families with thick walls and windows to fireproof what was stored.
BROWN PALACE HOTEL
17th & Tremont Place
National Register 4/28/1970, 5DV.110
The Brown Palace Hotel, America’s second fireproof building, was begun in 1889 and completed in 1892. Denver architect Frank E. Edbrooke designed the building for Henry C. Brown and co-owners W. H. Bush and N. M. Tabor. Brown paid three-quarters of the total $2 million construction and furnishing costs. The hotel has long played a role as the social and cultural landmark of Denver. It has regularly hosted U.S. presidents, foreign dignitaries, and business leaders, as well as the traveling general public.
Brown Palace Hotel ** (added 1970 - Building - #70000157)
Also known as H.C. Brown Palace
17th St. and Tremont Pl., Denver
Historic Significance: Architecture/Engineering
Architect, builder, or engineer: Giddes & Seerie, Edbrooke,Frank E.
Architectural Style: Other, Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals
Area of Significance: Architecture, Engineering
Period of Significance: 1875-1899
Owner: Private
Historic Function: Domestic
Historic Sub-function: Hotel
Current Function: Domestic
Current Sub-function: Hotel
Ad from the back pages of the March 1913 issue of British Columbia Magazine.
Full text:
Vancouver
Canada
“The Liverpool of the Pacific”
Vancouver Schools are modern, fireproof structures
Vancouver—An Educational Centre
Vancouver is the educational centre for the British Pacific Northwest. The University of British Columbia occupies a magnificent site overlooking the entrance to Burrard Inlet and the waters of the Straits of Georgia at the extreme western part of Point Grey. Here imposing administration, lecture, assembly, and dormitory buildings are being erected under the direction of the provincial government, and the first classes will begin university work of the highest rank in October, 1913.
In addition to the university the Anglican, Presbyterian and Methodist Church bodies maintain denominational schools for theological students, and McGill University College gives instruction in the first three years in arts and two years in science along the lines pursued at McGill University in Montreal.
There are ten private schools for boys and girls where special attention is paid to music, languages, and matriculation subjects prescribed by the leading universities of Canada, Great Britain and the United States.
The School Board of Vancouver has jurisdiction over a normal school, a model school, two high schools, five manual training schools, and twenty-seven public schools. In addition there are five public school and four manual training school buildings included in the programme of construction for 1913.
During 1912 there were enrolled 12,393 pupils in the schools of the city, exclusive of private schools and 340 teachers assisted by 67 special instructors were employed. One of the important departments of school work in Vancouver is the night school system. During 1912, 1,972 pupils and 62 instructors were in attendance in this work, and a vast number of technical and scientific subjects were included in the curriculum.
By midsummer accommodation will have been provided for class-room and teaching purposes aggregating an attendance of 20,000. The chief difficulty that has confronted the Vancouver School Board in past years has been the problem of providing adequate accommodation for the rapidly increasing enrolment of city children of school age.
Vancouver's population has been increasing at the rate of 10,000 a year for the better part of a decade, a fact to which the increasing demand for educational facilities bears striking testimony.
There are many obvious reasons for this remarkable growth. May we send you fuller particulars under separate cover? Write Department C.
Progress Club
P.O. Box 1300
Vancouver, Canada