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Brick Facade History and Restoration
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Brick Facade History and Restoration
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" Right now I thought we talk with cast that the -- who's over here -- Chris Vila talking about the condition of the brick. Obviously got a couple different kinds of brick actually down here across the ground floor of the tell the story of the building we've got. The original brick. This high quality brick was very thin joints but -- joints. That frame around the exterior of the openings. -- of these states of the original. Construction of the building that we -- it was a residence that was originally residents. When it was converted to commercial use sometime in the third quarter of the nineteenth century. These piers were inserted and incorporated in with the ground floor storefront and bill and you can see the distinction in the brick quality. It's pretty close to the very common break and the joint sizes are much fatter and in the that the the break and joints on the the -- years earlier clear line between. It deals and we'll is that fellas well residential. It's everything you can see the real story of the building played out here across. What about the stairs of these original. These are not original these are also part of the building's conversion commercial use -- varying the sandstone of blue. Sandstone. And typically what happens when this building material. Is it's it begins to. Laminated well look at it over here yeah yeah that's exactly what's happening this was inserted. Probably for the entry with a commercial use. And we've just basically inserted ratings don't you think it's replaced what the original front door was front -- I think the front door problem was down at the other end of the year the other end of this. Ground floor here and you can actually see. This. Sandstone brownstone so which very possibly for its part of the original landing. For a loose -- that would have been part of the residents."
