another industrial furniture haul from the roberts electric company factory and machine shop

despite having to endure several revisions to insurance certificates with heneghan wrecking and the ever present and watchful eye of power construction, we managed to work quickly and flawlessly to remove another large load of industrial furniture left behind when the roberts electric company vacated the building. among our finds were several workbenches (including maple wood table tops and lyon channeled steel bases), benjamin green porcelain enameled lighting, streamlined cabinets, piles of blueprints, and "goodform" office furniture. all of these were quickly removed and brought back to the shop to be photographed and systematically added to the urban remains website.

the majority of the building is set to be demolished, but the facade - part of the historic fulton street market district - will be painstakingly disassembled and rebuilt and/or left intact with the newer building constructed around it. if memory serves me correctly, a hotel will be occupying the large parcel of land located directly across the street from the fulton market cold storage building that google turned into their chicago headquarters.

the following images provide the last glimpse of the building's interior before it is brought down by heneghan's machines. i would like to return once more to rescue the monstrous douglas fir wood firm beams, but only time will tell. although this wasn't an architectural salvage per se, we did secure a nice load of early to mid-20th century industrial furnishings that can be repurposed or reused in some other setting.

an example of some of the green porcelain enameled benjamin light fixtures salvaged from the complex.