I guess my next question was the building at Annie Spring why they were all log verses stone.
I don’t know why they did that. That’s what they did before the ’20. I don’t know why. They just took the thing that was most convenient. A lot of them were built without plans, they’d just start building, you know.
Yeah.
I don’t know where they, I don’t remember seeing any of the early plans. Annie Springs, uh-uh. No, I don’t know where the hell they are.
An architect, call fellow. So, I guess when he designed those details that was his determination, you know. I don’t think they, I don’t think that builders who built it made the dramatic change like that because they’d have to figure it out without getting proper consultation, you know.
So, little things like chimney caps, it’s all just personal choice.
Yeah, that was personal selection. It’s practical use, fire hazards and all that, you know.
Right.
I think they’ll be using their own judgment. I think when they were building the buildings I think the plans pretty well were scrutinized so they didn’t go astray and do something dangerous, somebody would have caught it, you know.
Now, those wagon wheel chandeliers. They’re pretty common. We’ve seen them at ranger dorms, superintendent’s house.
Oh yeah, I’ve seen that up at Jackson Hole, I’ve seen it, that wagon wheel is an old concept. You see it in bars up in Montana. A lot of people use that adaptation and apply it to light fixtures, and you know. You could look at a damn catalog and find all that crap made back in Philadelphia 200 years ago if you wanted to. A lot of the stuff that you see isn’t new. You see some elaborate channel, everything is, “gee, that’s wonderful.” Hell, you go back in the New England States or old Pennsylvania towns, dust towns, you’ll find they were just as clever as we were. And now we’re trying to copy a lot. You know, none of us copied.
Because you had to have a flue for each fire place, and had to have a direct current that draws properly, you know. But, when you make a fireplace back to back, it’s quite, you had to be careful that you got 2 different, separate fires to deal heat with. And each fire has to have its own flue to get proper draft and proper draw, you know.
I would like to ask you about the administration building, why is it the only building that has… I don’t know. They wanted the, they wanted the glass to get the light in the guess. I was told to do that when I worked on it. Let’s see.
