INTO THE MEZZANINE — PART I: LOST WALLDOG SIGNS ON INGRAHAM STREET FACADE FOUND!

 With the renovation of the original 1916 building came opportunities to examine remaining original structure and textures, long hidden beneath the machines and materials of The Print House, which occupied the mezzanine and 1941 loading dock since sometime around the 1980—1990s.

A section showing the location of the lost Ingraham Street Facade, inside the 1941 loading dock

Inside the 1941 loading dock, facing Stewart Street — the model lacking detail, we have never been here before!

Looking into the 1916 building. Notice the cinderblocks above the self-closing fire doors.

Were these passages to the new loading dock placed where windows used to be?

While documenting the first floor of the 1916 building which connects to the 1941 loading dock, I realized the wall on the inside of the loading dock was the Ingraham street facade — there were windows visible behind pipes and ducts, and bricked up areas indicating former windows, and the best part — some ghostly remnants of not only Englander Spring Bed Co. but also "MENTS" which may be the remainder of "CASEMENTS", one of the Parshelsky Bros. products! 

"MENTS" and a window turned into a duct hole

Look for the CO. above the S

Look for the G and B

Look for the I, N, G and B

a window used as a pipe and duct pass through

A boarded up window as tall as the cinderblock infills

It's exciting because this is the brick wall which used to face Ingraham Street, a part of it that was cut off when the Varick St. Freight Yards were built. This is our first close examination of a 1916 lost facade! We can get reconstruct any windows, loading docks(?) or door evidence we find with these and other photos. 

The middle of an "R" remains unpainted over in between the metal supports 

The same R in the upper right corner, the chain link and firedoor below it.
Which is it, Parshelsky, Englander, or Goldberger? A boared up window is to the left.

The Boarded up window, the chainlink and firedoor on the right.

This old window split in half and half filled in with cinderblocks

look for the CO, above MENTS

there is a black line, surrounding frame

On the right, cinderblocked in, a window or door?
The letters CO. and MENTS would be above to the left the windows.
This photo taken with mechanicals cleared away from the window.

best guess at what it may say… is the "–MENTS" a Parshelsky "CASEMENTS" fragment?

This drawing is based on photo reference, what we can see and where it was.
It doesn't make sense right now.