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August 13, 2024 - The old building was the 5th and final stop on Columbus Landmark Foundations Most Endangered Building Bus Tour.
"When the historic Crystal Ice Manufacturing and Cold Storage Building was built in 1891, it was the largest facility of its sort and considered state of the art in its time.
The manufacturing plant closed in 1965. The building remained vacant until Spaghetti Warehouse renovated it and opened for business in April 1978. The restaurant décor includes ornate decorations and antiques, including two New England church confessionals, an antique wood elevator from Germany, rare stained glass windows and a San Francisco trolley car. The one-way ammonia compressor from the original ice manufacturing facility is still in the lobby. The flywheel stands approximately 20 feet around." Previous description: www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMCH2J_Crystal_Ice_Manufactur...
"The original Spaghetti Warehouse, located at 397 W. Broad St., first opened in 1978 in an old icehouse that was built in 1891. After a partial roof collapse in 2022, Spaghetti Warehouse closed, and in late fall of 2023, they relocated to Downtown at 150 S. High St.
But now, Spaghetti Warehouse could be moving right back to their original Broad St. location, said Skip Weiler, local developer and owner of The Robert Weiler Company. Just in a brand new building. And there are already new plans in the work for the Spaghetti Warehouse that just opened Downtown.
Weiler’s company, the Kelley family, and the owners of the Spaghetti Warehouse chain are working together with plans to raze the original warehouse and construct a mixed-use building there, complete with apartments, parking, shopping, and yes – even another Spaghetti Warehouse restaurant.
“We’re still in the planning stages right now,” Weiler explained. “But we’re very excited about it. Being between 2 railroad tracks and at a historic location, we’d continue that theme between the new development and the location.” Previous description: 614now.com/2024/food-drink/spaghetti-warehouse-could-be-m...
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New Haven Food Terminal (Granbery, Cash and Associates, 1958-1964). This postwar wholesale food terminal follows a basic typology which had been favored by the USDA, shippers, and larger agribusiness interests since the early 20th century. The ideal was a low-rise, linear building whose loading-dock heights are calibrated for easy transfers between trains and trucks, and whose narrow, deep stores could pack the trucks together in plan while accommodating mountains of goods within. (See the work of Helen Tangires, especially Movable Markets: Food Wholesaling in the Twentieth-Century City, the essential source on the history and deployment of this typology.)
The timeline and style varied from place to place. New Haven is among those cities that didn't tackle it until well into the postwar years, armed with the new tool of urban-renewal powers to force the clearance of the historic market district. By this point, International Style modernism had become the preferred architectural language for major infrastructural facilities; hence the rectangles of brick and glass, crisply delineated by steel frames. I suspect that architect Dianna Granbery, who came out of Harvard in the early Gropius period, would have been particularly comfortable in this mode. Today, the building looks especially 'tough' compared to other period examples. From the limited imagery available online, I think that the steel may have originally enjoyed a brighter coat of paint --- all the better to convey themes of modernity, efficiency and hygiene.
(I have volumes more to say on this topic, but I'll save it for the hoped-for publication of my own research on New York's market architecture.)