Cal's Dairy Bar
Sam Harrison, a local Saegertown historian and author, gave me the following photos last week as he shared with me a little more of the history of the building. These photos are of the side of the...
View ArticleBasement Cement
Blair Witch. It was hard to think of anything else when looking at our basement. Until last week, anyway. Now we've got a halfway-finished and usable basement.
View ArticleLong Overdue
Even with the lack of updates, work has been underway for the next two apartments. Here's where we are as of today...
View ArticleMore History
Our building was erected in 1909 after the building that had originally occupied the lot burned to the ground after an early-morning fire on January 11, 1909.
View ArticleFinishing Up
The 1-bedroom apartment in the front of the building is waiting for some paint on the doors and a ceiling fan to be hung.
View ArticleBasement Cement Again
I finally finished clearing/cleaning out the other side of the basement. This side was a much larger challenge as there had been huge cement supports poured at some point in the last hundred years that...
View ArticleThe End of an Era
Almost everything that had been in the building when we started has been removed and replaced except for the outer shell, obviously. After replacing the panel box in the basement, which had started out...
View ArticleOutside Pad
We had to put in another pad outside the entrance to the new back apartment and decided to run a cement pad the entire length of the building. Not only is Larry Gosnell awesome at cementing basements,...
View ArticlePhotos of the Finished 1 Bedroom
The next two apartments have been done for a while, but we've been waiting for the cement work outside and in the basement to be finished before getting the final inspection. Here's the one-bedroom...
View ArticlePhotos of the Finished 2 Bedroom
After taking photos of these apartments, I've realized that I did not take any of the storage areas in each of them. Anyways, here's the two-bedroom apartment.
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