contents from humboldt garage & auto service building walk-in vault saved shortly before its demolition

the former humboldt garage & auto service company building (1911) had a walk-in vault. shortly before that section of the building was demolished, the wreckers managed to open the door, where they discovered several ledgers, signs, salesman samples, blueprints, and other odds and ends left behind by the carbit paint company - the earliest checks date to 1938.

courtesy of the bldg. 51 archive.

modifications or alterations made to the building during the 1940's when the carbit paint company made the building their home. eugene and max fuhrer where the architect on record. the blue prints were discovered in the locked walk-in vault.

blueprints discovered in the walk-in safe offer detailed insight into any and all alterations made to the former humboldt garage in 1940, when carbit paint became the building's second tenant, where they resided until the building was demolished in january of 2018

thankfully, the wrecker set this stuff aside for me to look at the following day. the images in this post were taken from the wrecker's phone (i couldn't make it there to shoot the vault interior with contents myself). i bought the contents the following day.

final moments of the former auto service company (later carbit paints) building. the two oversized indiana limestone keystones with volutes were salvaged for the developer.