I went up the second floor of the 1916 Building, on the mezzanine side where The Print House offices were, to meet with The Owner. He was not there, to say the least… no offices, nor any partitions, were there at all anymore. The second floor had been scooped just like the first— and once again the walls and structure of the OG building were at last laid bare for documentation. I could finally investigate quite easily the bricks and see if there was any evidence of the lost 1916 facades of Stewart and Ingraham.
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Chimney brick on the left — this patched in area matches the area we noticed in the loading dock, this is the top of a window… |
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Full length of the lost Ingraham facade, 3 more window tops — Varick loading dock wall on the right with door top. Could the patched in parts have been all doors? |
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Facing the Varick loading dock door tops (below modern windows) |
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The former entry office, this wall is the party wall to the "full" second floor of 538 Johnson. |
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538 Party wall — another patched hole (this one has fingered drawn "bricks"!) |
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Lost Stewart facade wall — this is the mezzanine level core elevator door connecting to 75 Stewart |
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The entire wall of the lost Stewart facade lacked any evidence of former windows… |
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Looking for evidence on the former Stewart facade… the ladder up the mezzanine level roof… another patch but not likely a window. |
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Crumbling away every day, lost Stewart facade (stairs to first floor on the right) |
It makes sense there wouldn't be too many windows or any along the facade facing the empty lot on Stewart. The patches could have been conveyor belts between the new building… there are also pipe and conduit patches all over. The floor was already being installed when I arrived.
We now have a confirmation of real windows or a mix of windows and loading dock doors, along Ingraham Street — the phantom street covered by the Varick Freight yard, where the 1941 loading dock was built. Combined with the walldog discovery we could make a much better guess at what the Parshelsky building on Ingraham Street looked like in 1916.
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