1940 First floor garage renovation

These blueprints show 2 versions of a planned renovation opening up a two-truck garage bay with loading platform in the Johnson Avenue facade, and building a whole new covered truck garage in the space between Peele Co. (block 3000) and Englander (Block 2994) over Ingraham Street, which must have been more of a dead end into the freight yards. My guess is that trucks became critical to their operations as the train service in the area was diminishing.

Henry Z. Harrison's design for a garage along Johnson Ave.




The second design of the Johnson garage, with the garage closer to the train dock


Proposed garage bay on the right, the garage is closer to the dock, no window between. Firedoor notations on the left.

New Johnson Ave. garage bay plan on the right, new covered garage over Ingraham Street on the left and top. 


The garage as built, 2018. The lintels from the demolished windows remain.

Looking inside the open right garage door on Johnson Ave in 2018
The silver slope off the side of this parapet over to the next is the Ingraham extension roof.


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