Our New Addition

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  THRI Renovations

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  • Artist's rendering of planned addition
  • Planned entry area
  • Wilcox home circa 1921
  • Fund-raising sign monitors progress
  • packing artifacts in the library.
  • Theodore Roosevelt breaks ground for new addition.
  • Using ground penetrating radar
  • The business end of the ground penetrating radar.
  • Archeologists and backhoes
  • archeology begins
  • Stop when you reach magma!
  • Shoveling dirt
  • Sifting through excavated soil
  • Wrapped desk for shipping
  • Stop it! You're being silly!
  • Did somebody see a fireplace?
  • Library barriers erected
  • Ongoing archeology at the TR Site
  • Telephone poles
  • Utility truck
  • Placing the new utility poles
  • Underground utility lines are laid.
  • An underground discovery
  • Roof inspection at the TR Inaugural Site.
  • post-1901 addition
  • Excavator at work
  • Excavator atop rubble
  • excavator at work
  • rubble pile
  • Exposed wall after demolition.
  • groundbreaking
  • Excavator digging
  • excavating
  • exposed foundation
  • Digging for the foundation.
  • Archeology continues
  • Found something
  • A closer look
  • turntable base
  • turntable
  • View from the street.
  • Area due for demolition.
  • Workers inspect the roof.
  • New foundation.
  • Concrete forms
  • Pouring concrete
  • Foundation walls
  • Concrete pump.
  • Pump boom.
  • Rebar.
  • Foundation walls.
  • Elevator shaft.
  • Addition floor
  • Elevator shaft.
  • Scaffolding
  • Scaffold goes up.
  • Line repair.
  • Heavy equipment.
  • New elevator shaft
  • colt
  • steel on truck
  • steel supports
  • Top of elevator shaft.
  • Lift in operation.
  • Lifting cement.
  • Elevator shaft.
  • More cement goes up.
  • Masons at work.
  • Crane.
  • Unloading
  • Forklift
  • lowering in an I-beam.
  • Steel beams
  • Elevator shaft.
  • Ready for painting.
  • Hi, Joe!
  • Welding
  • Powerwashing the chimney.
  • Scraping paint.
  • Painters at work.
  • Scraped surface.
  • Carpenters at work.
  • Studying the plans.
  • Future home.
  • Floof supports going in.
  • A new floor.
  • Hammer Time.
  • Saw
  • chimney with scraped paint.
  • Newly painted chimney.
  • Peeling paint.
  • Inside a column.
  • Walls erected.
  • Walls erected.
  • Bracing the walls.
  • First floor nearly up.
  • Roof truss lifted into place.
  • In the new gallery.
  • New neeting room.
  • Repointing the bricks.
  • The new roof.
  • Front view of the new addition.
  • Steel frame for the first floor.
  • Steel going up.
  • Welding.
  • Front porch showing signs of deterioration.
  • Front porch area.
  • Beams laid for new porch.
  • The new multi-purpose room.
  • THe front of the new addition.
  • The new stairwell.
  • The new gallery has drywall up.

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  The new addition.

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  • early sketch
  • Original carriage house.
  • THRI in 2009
  • Architectural drawing
  • C. 1921 image of historic carriage house.
  • new addition
  • TR Inaugural Site