[MassHistPres] Loading Dock Doors

Dennis De Witt djd184 at verizon.net
Mon Sep 26 16:57:48 EDT 2011


For what it's worth, roll up steel shutters are not wholly inappropriate for urban buildings of the second half of the 19th. C. -- especially if the mechanism can be inside the portal and out of sight

Go to Google and search for the following:
Cast-iron architecture in America: the significance of James Bogardus
 By Margot Gayle, Carol Gayle  

Go to p. 36 to see an ad from 1848 for "patent revolving [i.e. rollup] iron [store front] shutters" from the D. D. Badger & Co. Iron Works -- a firm better known now for cast iron facades -- a technical innovation that, perhaps, we find more appealing.

Dennis De Witt


On Sep 26, 2011, at 4:08 PM, Anne Louro wrote:

> The New Bedford Historical Commission will be reviewing an application in which the property owner wishes to install metal roll-down security doors as a replacement to the current wooden loading dock doors. A Google search of security door companies has not found anything sympathetic for this late 19thecentury waterfront brick industrial building.
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> Has anyone either used or come across anything that may be appropriate?
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> Best,
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> Anne Louro
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