A number of the old photos I’ve been picking at here in the last few weeks have been construction shots, taken at intervals to show progress of the work. Today’s trio doesn’t break any new ground, but is a good example of what you can pick up from them. Above, 530 West 86th Street as it …
The picture above, from the Canal Street station on the IND, serving the A, C, and E trains, perhaps needs a little explanation to be clear. The tile wall at the top is closer to me than the train below it; there’s a mezzanine behind that wall (above the train), and the black-painted steel beams …
That’s the Weaverland Bridge, carrying Quarry Road over Conestoga Creek near the village of Terre Hill, Pennsylvania. (HAER says it’s it’s the Conestoga Creek, my map says it’s the Conestoga River. I have no interest in the outcome of that argument.) It’s a concrete tied-arch bridge constructed in 1916, which makes it early for a …
The picture above shows a concrete industrial building in Hell’s Kitchen, from the pages of the Engineering Record in 1907. We know that building because we’ve been working on various pieces of it for about five years. When we work on a famous building, it’s no surprise to see it in the press, but we …
The picture above, which I’ve tentatively titled “Fifty Shades of Beige,” shows the exposed underside of the floor structure in a small commercial building from the 1930s. The building has a steel frame, and since a steel frame does not provide by itself usable floors, it has a floor system spanning between the steel beams. …
