General Ghostbusters Discussion • Re: "The Marble Palace": a definitive history of Fire Station №23

Found some new exterior photos from Brooks + Scarpa's Instagram account from the installing of some of the new I-columns to earthquake-proof Fire Station №23. The date they were posted was the 9th of April, suggesting some of the installation work happened around that time:

Breathing new life into Los Angeles Fire Station 23 with @labureauengineering, a US National Register of Historic Places and LA Historic-Cultural Monument.
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Having been through many transitions, we are excited to share that the new steel moment-frame is being constructed! You may be wondering how to get a 3-story steel moment-frame into a very narrow, one of the first reinforced concrete buildings built in the early 1900s…..well, you go through the Hay Loft, of course!
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When it opened, it was staffed by fifteen firefighters and ten horses. The original equipment included a horse wagon, chief's buggy, and a pumper that used a vertical tube boiler.
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When it opened, it exceeded the budget so much it was called the "Taj Mahal" of firehouses ($35,000 was the original budget..came in at $53,000)

-The steel isn't being lowered in through the Hay Loft though, it's being lowered in through the Hose Tower (where the Proton Packs were stored in Frozen Empire.

Statistics: Posted by Kingpin — July 9th, 2024, 2:31 pm

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