Walking out the front door like…. 💫

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After a summer of scrambling and stress, the Oaklands is done! I will catch everyone up to speed, but first this hilarious impromptu photo shoot on the steps of the Oaklands. These girls were walking on the opposite side of 9th St, then ran over and started Instagramming or something. This was captured by the…

One of the final flourishes in the front area was finally replacing the bedraggled handrail. It was poorly constructed originally and also badly bent. When he was core drilling, you can see that just under the concrete skim coat, is the original red sandstone step.

Today Will and Sean scoured off ages of grime, then polished and sealed the tiles in the front vestibule. These are likely original but we are not sure.

The first two pictures are what you see looking out the windows on the West side of the building on the first floor- the cinder block facade of an old addition on the neighbors building. To bring in more light, and create some interest we have decided to make a broken mirror mosaic. The third…

In order to get more light down the window shaft, we created a mirror mural with broken mirror pieces and extra bathroom tiles.

Stephen Nelson found these incredible news articles from 1889. They are so amazing, I can’t believe we had not found them yet. They are about the original Oaklands owner, and best of all, we found out why he called it Oakland Apartments. It has been a mystery until now. The original owner went to Oakland,…

Years of refuse has piled at the bottom of the ventilation shaft. One cool trinket is the remnants of a die cast sea plane (first picture). The next picture is what it would have looked like with paint and still intact. Will planted a bunch of varieties of hostas after he cleaned up the midden…