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Shortly before 8 pm on Thursday, May 9th, 2024 crews from Grimsby Fire Department were dispatched to a report of a structure fire at an address on Book Road near Lake Ontario. First arriving crews encountered a working fire with smoke & flames visible from an end-townhouse unit; which was threatening other adjoining units. Firefighters had initially fought the blaze from inside of the building, however due to a weakened roof all firefighters were ordered out as they transitioned to a defensive attack. A 2nd alarm was requested bringing several mutual aid apparatus from Lincoln Fire Rescue to the scene. Several of the firefighters were at the nearby training centre when the second alarm request went out; so the apparatus responded directly to the scene after packing up their rigs. LFR utilized their new drone and its thermal imaging camera to get a better view from the sky. There were no reported injuries and a cause / damage esteem is unknown at this time. Firefighters remained on scene for several hours performing overhaul and ensuring the blaze had been extinguished. Niagara EMS stood by in the event of any injuries and Niagara Regional Police assisted with traffic control.
•The Ambassador Hotel
The Ambassador Hotel, originally known as the 310 West Church Street Apartments, is a six story residential building designed in the Beaux-arts eclectic manner. It is constructed of reinforced concrete with a cast stone and English bond brick exterior and occupies the northeast corner of block 50 in downtown Jacksonville, Florida, bounded by Duval (south), North Pearl (west), West Church (north) and Julia (east) Streets. Three additional buildings are located in the block, all of them constructed after 1950. A comparatively small one-story structure, used as a residence and office, is situated on the immediate west side of the hotel and a four-story bank on its south side. Nearly half the block is devoted to a parking space. Across Julia Street, on the hotel's east side, is a multi-story modern office building. The new Federal Reserve Bank Building (1958) sits diagonally across the intersection of Church and Julia Streets. Only two buildings occupy the block that is across Church Street to the north of the hotel; parking lots constitute the remainder of that block. A red brick one and one-half story church rests on its southeast corner immediately north of the Ambassador Hotel. The hotel is thus set in a fully urban area occupied exclusively by office buildings and parking lots. The buildings in this area are well maintained and by day, when office or business hours are observed, populated. Working in the Georgian Revival Style that was a common theme in Hentz, Reid and Adler's Beaux-arts eclectic manner, Hal F. Hentz designed the 310 West Church Street Apartments in accord with a scheme the firm often used for large apartment buildings. Under this plan, the body of the edifice served as a background for a rich entrance motif. The main entrance, centered on the north facade, was formed by massive rusticated ashlar stonework set with a scroll keystone. A diamond-paned transom and wooden panelled double doors were set within that frame. An arched pediment, broken by the central pair of windows, rose at an approximately thirty-five degree angle from the stonework. The central pair of windows is additionally flanked by scrolls rising from the broken pediment and capped by an arched ped- iment elaborated with a scallop motif in its tympanum. This distinguished entrance has been altered by the addition of brickwork to create a small balcony below which the doorway is set. An insubstantial canopy extends above the balcony. The first story of the building consists of a high, smooth ashlar scored water table, separated from the upper four stories by a shallow stringcourse. The red brick walls above the first story are set in English bond and articulated in shallow planes accented by rusticated ashlar cast stone quoins. There is a single stringcourse below the top story windows and a deep cornice above them. Rising from the cornice is a brick parapet with cast stone finials. The rounded pediment at the top of the building spans the central pair of quions and repeats
Built in the midst of the Florida Boom, the 310 West Church Apartments is one of the few remnants of an area of great Jacksonville hotels that begin in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and ended with the economic collapse of the late 1920's. Only two major hotel or apartment buildings constructed before 1927 remain in the city. The 310 Building is the older of the two. Among the extant hotels or apartments in Jacksonville, it is the only structure that exhibits a traditional architectural style, providing visual testimony to the sophistication that once attended the city's urban development. The quietly elegant building, designed in the Georgian Revival Style, represented locally the work of one of the South's leading architectural firms, Hentz, Reid and Adler, authoritatively described as "undoubtedly the most outstanding of the Atlanta architectural firms practicing Beaux-Arts eclecticism in the early twentieth century! For several decades, its Jacksonville, building provided a stately anchor on the edge of the city's thriving business and commercial district. The 310 West Church Street Apartments was also an important residential and meeting space for local and state business and political leaders and in 1950 was the campaign headquarters for George Smathers during his successful campaign for the senate seat of Claude Pepper. The apartment house was built for clients of the Adair Realty and Trust Company, an Atlanta-based firm that maintained a branch office in Jacksonville. The Adair Company formed a locally chartered firm, the 310 West Church Street Corporation, to manage the apartments and selected the building's name in keeping with the company's policy of incorporating the address in the name to make it distinctive and "leave no doubt to where the new apartment is. The project was undertaken in response to demand for small apartments with hotel service, according to the Times-Union. The 310 Apartments offered features comparable to the most exclusive apartment houses in large eastern cities. Its amenities included a downstairs cafe, elevators, switchboard connections in all apartments, servidors to allow grocery deliveries during a resident's absence, adequate garages, and a special back entrance to accomodate motorists. At the time the 310 Apartments Building was constructed, Jacksonville was experiencing an unprecedented period of growth. But the three large hotel or apartment buildings erected between 1923 and 1926 proved to be the last of an era that began in the 1870's when the city's thriving tourist industry encouraged development of a number of large hotels whose ornate appearance and ostentatious service earned them a national reputation.The great fire of 19C1 destroyed most Viewed from the street, the building appears much as it did in the 1920 ! s. With the exception of the relatively insignificant details noted, its present condition is close to the original. Only upon close examination can the deterioration of the wood sills be noticed. Otherwise the fabric looks good and the structure solid and stable, reflecting its excellent design and construction.
The Ambassador Hotel or 310 West Church Street Apartments c 1922
Gigaom Structure Data event at Pier 60, Chelsea Piers in New York, NY on Wednesday March 19, 2014. (© Photo by Jakub Mosur).
Gigaom Structure Connect conference at Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco, CA on Tuesday & Wednesday October 21-22, 2014.
Gigaom Structure Connect conference at Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco, CA on Tuesday & Wednesday October 21-22, 2014.
Gigaom Structure Data event at Pier 60, Chelsea Piers in New York, NY on Wednesday March 19, 2014. (© Photo by Jakub Mosur).
This is Sister Chute. There are rocks just under the water in the center of the pic - the closure structure - which helps keep more of the flow in the main channel. There is a deep scour hole downstream (to the right) that gets isolated during low water. We need to dig out the chute to connect the scour hole so fish can access the scour hole - scarce habitat for overwintering fish.