If I gather correctly what you are really asking by your question, then strictly speaking I don’t know. In fact the current state of the brick work displays no signs of demolition and it’s more likely that they omitted the tunnel and dressing rooms from the final As Built all together. The only visible penetration of the North wall is the Sliding Fire Door and there is no indication of there ever having been a staircase up to serve any dressing rooms (or a green room) on a second story.
The images I have total 400MB but are downloadable in their actual full (average 8 Mega pixel) size from the Picasa site… so knock yourself out. Credit goes to The Avery @ Columbia and are posted for research purposes only.
Enjoy. Points of interest for me include(See if you find them all): slat walks and associated ladders, organ loft, heating mushrooms, theatre vault, Baudelot cooling tower (btw which isn’t the appropriate style of cooling tower for this application typically I don’t think. Dismantled today), exit tunnel & dressing rooms(currently demolished), trap doors x3!, future orchestra pit, organ pipe backlighting, 21 circuit main chandelier!, sky-walk, 3 styles of external brick-work, creative HVAC plenum use, air washer humidifier, coal chute and coal burning boiler flue detail, indirect ceiling lighting and cove lighting strips, mosaics, projector trajectory, strangely located green room, coat of arms(quartered rampant lions & fleuretty Semme-de-lis is there a real person referenced in this coat of arms?), rose dial compass (nautical feel), ornamental iron diffusers, re-designed cosmetic room, drinking fountain, Steel sub-contractor identified, 11 fire hoses, 2339 seating capacity, sump vent to roof (I wish this were common practice). Anyhow those plans are a trove to be sure. And they are only half of the ones available for this theatre.
There are 20,000 sets of plans and prints at the Avery from the offices of T. Lamb alone. Donated after being stored in a theatre basement throughout John J. McNamara tenure at the helm of the T. Lamb architects.
negative i wish, other than the darkness of the garage on the bottom left of the ludlow side of the building. this appears to be used as a 2 van(parallel) garage and storage for a dozen paint buckets. My last look inside that garage revealed only a wall on the right with a door where i’d imagine the back/side offings of the theatre to be located. The only thing this says to me is that its most likely that only a small portion of the “backstage” or loading dock is being used currently and/or disturbed.
What is the name of the non-profit in talks with T. Sung/VJHC?
Why did they need one C of O on the 8th Sept and then another on the 20th? Seems curious.
i’ve also always wondered what a smoke stack that big is doing there. i mean that theater must have had a righteous big coal burning boiler or something.
I’ve been up the fire escape (missing many steps) on the other side of the building, and it has a similar layout as the front in order to evacuate each side of the balcony seating, but the roof is unreachable. Warner Theatre Canal above your terracotta black tile fake façade you have a set back and a louver which is typical building exterior for a mechanical room. Inside it appears they have built a loft for storage instead of the original 25ft. lobby ceiling.
Where are the Thomas Lamb plans available? Does anyone know where best where to view these?
If I gather correctly what you are really asking by your question, then strictly speaking I don’t know. In fact the current state of the brick work displays no signs of demolition and it’s more likely that they omitted the tunnel and dressing rooms from the final As Built all together. The only visible penetration of the North wall is the Sliding Fire Door and there is no indication of there ever having been a staircase up to serve any dressing rooms (or a green room) on a second story.
The images I have total 400MB but are downloadable in their actual full (average 8 Mega pixel) size from the Picasa site… so knock yourself out. Credit goes to The Avery @ Columbia and are posted for research purposes only.
Enjoy. Points of interest for me include(See if you find them all): slat walks and associated ladders, organ loft, heating mushrooms, theatre vault, Baudelot cooling tower (btw which isn’t the appropriate style of cooling tower for this application typically I don’t think. Dismantled today), exit tunnel & dressing rooms(currently demolished), trap doors x3!, future orchestra pit, organ pipe backlighting, 21 circuit main chandelier!, sky-walk, 3 styles of external brick-work, creative HVAC plenum use, air washer humidifier, coal chute and coal burning boiler flue detail, indirect ceiling lighting and cove lighting strips, mosaics, projector trajectory, strangely located green room, coat of arms(quartered rampant lions & fleuretty Semme-de-lis is there a real person referenced in this coat of arms?), rose dial compass (nautical feel), ornamental iron diffusers, re-designed cosmetic room, drinking fountain, Steel sub-contractor identified, 11 fire hoses, 2339 seating capacity, sump vent to roof (I wish this were common practice). Anyhow those plans are a trove to be sure. And they are only half of the ones available for this theatre.
There are 20,000 sets of plans and prints at the Avery from the offices of T. Lamb alone. Donated after being stored in a theatre basement throughout John J. McNamara tenure at the helm of the T. Lamb architects.
lol,
This is what this mural is about.
negative i wish, other than the darkness of the garage on the bottom left of the ludlow side of the building. this appears to be used as a 2 van(parallel) garage and storage for a dozen paint buckets. My last look inside that garage revealed only a wall on the right with a door where i’d imagine the back/side offings of the theatre to be located. The only thing this says to me is that its most likely that only a small portion of the “backstage” or loading dock is being used currently and/or disturbed.
What is the name of the non-profit in talks with T. Sung/VJHC?
Why did they need one C of O on the 8th Sept and then another on the 20th? Seems curious.
i’ve also always wondered what a smoke stack that big is doing there. i mean that theater must have had a righteous big coal burning boiler or something.
I’ve been up the fire escape (missing many steps) on the other side of the building, and it has a similar layout as the front in order to evacuate each side of the balcony seating, but the roof is unreachable.
Warner Theatre Canal above your terracotta black tile fake façade you have a set back and a louver which is typical building exterior for a mechanical room. Inside it appears they have built a loft for storage instead of the original 25ft. lobby ceiling.
Where are the Thomas Lamb plans available? Does anyone know where best where to view these?