Interior First Floor Framing, Renderings, and Questions

This framing is based on the 1940 renovation blueprints and 2018 site survey. It is 14x14" LLYP (Long Leaf Yellow Pine) posts and 6x8" LLYP beams, 8x14" beams on at the walls. The floor is 3" T&G (tounge and groove) & 1" fin. (what's this?). The windows in actuality are not at regular intervals, at least not all of them, the 1940 plans have no window measurements.


Important missing features are: 1. the chimney details (what is it attached to? is there a fireplace, a removed boiler?) 2. was there another stairwell? 3. was there another entrance, on the Stewart facade?

First floor of the 1916 building, looking towards Varick Freight Yard, Johnson Avenue pinnacle. 



Facing the 1919 extension, Johnson facade on the left, Varick behind us.


The posts and beams are described in the center of this blueprint

The reconstruction is meant to be from 1916 at this point, so the workshop does not have the alteration in this blueprint, but other details we can use to determine some of what was there before 1940. It describes a 20" thick brick facade, the concrete foundations (which we cross reference with the only 1916 blue prints we have), the location of a stand pipe, the firewall which separates the mezzanine structure with its two passages, and also states the mezzanine is a two-story warehouse and factory. The gallery is not mentioned on this plan, and it may not exist anymore in 1940.

Next to center is written: "See N.B. 4920/16  Alt. 11760/29 (Sec. 10 Block 2994 Lot 11 Vol. 2)"

There are bathroom stalls, sinks, an office, a small bathroom at the fire wall, and next to that a drawing of some stairs (in the 1919 building) which may be the unidentified stairs in a photo of the first floor tour. 



Here's something else, the beams are also described in the 1916 blueprints, except they are 10x14" (which looks more likely) and the title is "revised framing"



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