Christmas Present: Elevator Parts

Parts of the elevator were delivered today. No need to worry: professionals will be doing the assembly.

Getting Ready on the Inside

In this video you can see the removal of the former handicapped access door. The interior is being prepared for the installation of the elevator coach in January.

!CAUTION! HOLE

Here's a simple formula: take a newly constructed elevator shaft and add in an elevator carriage that has not yet been delivered and you get.....

Just Waiting for Riders

Work was recently done on the sidewalk around the elevator entrance. It now looks like you can walk right in and take a ride, but we just have a little longer to wait. We expect the elevator coach to be delivered on Christmas Eve. The month of January will be spent assembling, installing, testing, and certifying the coach. We hope to open the doors to our first riders just before February 1st.

More Happening Than You Think

While we wait for the delivery of our elevator coach, work continues on some final details.

 

There will be a call button next to the lobby entrance. For now, it makes a great cat toy.

A view of the outside entrance to the elevator lobby.

This is the mechanical room which will house the elevator equipment when it arrives. The location was created out of former office space in the basement of the Albright.

Project Delayed Due to Elevator Delivery

The November 22nd issue of The Scranton Times-Tribune contained an article on project delays due to the delivery of the elevator coach. In the meantime, work continues. In the photo below you can clearly see a small lobby, newly constructed, where elevator riders will be able to wait for a coach without having to suffer the elements.

Facade Almost Complete

You can see from this photo that the installation of the facade for the elevator enclosure is almost complete. Every effort has been taken to make it match, as closely as possible after almost 120 years, the original stone used in the construction of the Albright.