FNB: Look at all this space!

Apartment C - looking South

Apartment C - looking North

As demolition progresses (one dumpster filled, another delivered this morning) we are opening up the building and finding so much space!  These photos of Apartment C show the full volume of space that results from taking out the old walls and lowered ceilings.  You can trace the line of the removed walls in the floor and ceiling.  Excellent work by John Dye and Lane Dye.

It's too bad that we don't get to keep all this space...we'll be filling it up with our own walls, stairs and plumbing.  In the meantime we get to investigate the old building and see how things used to work.

An interesting discovery is that none of these walls were original!  How do we know?  Because the plaster is continuous behind the removed walls - and so is the wallpaper!  The photo below shows the (lovely) old wall paper as it appears in the space where a wall used to be.  We haven't taken enough of the walls apart to know what's underneath - we also don't know what the arrangement of these spaces looked like before.  One thing is for sure - we won't be going out and finding this wallpaper for the new apartments :)