Work is progressing!
Support is still needed for some unfunded elements,
but thanks to you, our generous supporters and donors, work on
this restoration and restabilization progress is underway. It
would be fitting, before showing you the pictures below, to throw out
words of special thanks to the following:
- US Department of the Interior's Save America's Treasures
program,
- The Montana Congressional delegation, for their assistance
- City of Livingston and Park County, for CTEP allocations
- Montana Tourism and Infrastructure Investment Program
- The Paul G. Allen Family Foundations
- The Livingston Community Trust
- The Montana Arts Council
- First Interstate Bank
- Bank of the Rockies
- You, our dedicated foundation
members and friends
Okay, here's what's been happening. Preparatory
work included lead paint abatement, floor work with insulation in the
attic, and colonnade supports. Support reinforcements are now
mostly installed, and the roof work itself is in process.
A few pictures appear below of what you have
made possible. There are quite a few of them here, so please be patient
-- they could all take a good minute or two to all load up across a dialup
connection, but they're worth seeing.
Lead paint work on the colonnade as a first step
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Removal of water-damaged plaster sections
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Museum Director Diana Seider converses with the Diamond
Construction team onsite in June.
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Opening the floor in the attic for insulation preliminary
to primary work to follow.
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A little hard to read at web-photo resolution, but the roof project
sign that greets people out front. The credits are mostly as
they appear above on this page, with the names of contractinf firms
beneath.
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Opening the colonnade/portico in July to add structural
supports.
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Trimming the new roof opening, late July.
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Loading in reinforcement steel (safely tied in, and no, he's just
signaling at the crane, not losing his balance).
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Operating the lift
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The view from the roof cut
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Loading roofing materials onto the Bocker lift
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A roofer carries rolls to the cradle
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East-side tear-off and particle board layering prior to felt paper sheeting.
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Tear-off, boarding, and felt paper along the colonnade, with scaffolding
around the Martin's chimney before dismantling.
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Disassembling the baggage-room chimney (west side above Miller Architects
and the Gourmet Cellar).
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A little sunlight through ceiling boards in a place that hasn't seen
any in a good half-century or better.
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A truck collects the old shingles and debris.
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A reconstructed beam support structure.
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Laying out sheeting.
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Cutting concrete for the gutter drains.
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Further images will be posted as the work proceeds...
Your help is still needed...
If you would like more information
on how you can support the roof project, please call Museum Director
Diana Seider at (406) 222-2300 or e-mail us at the address below.
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THE
LIVINGSTON DEPOT CENTER
The Livingston Depot Foundation is a non-profit organization
committed to enriching the lives of residents of
Livingston and surrounding, communities, and tourists
to the Yellowstone area by (1) restoring, preserving
and protecting the historic Northern Pacific depot, now a
community cultural center--The Livingston Depot Center; (2)
presenting and promoting the visual and performing arts,
culture, history of the Yellowstone Region, and educational
programs in the arts and humanities; and (3) promoting community
involvement, tourism and economic development through the
operation and use of the Livingston Depot Center.
Please send comments and corrections
to:
depot@ycsi.net
©2005
The Livingston Depot Center, Livingston Montana
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