158 Clifton Place, Brooklyn c. 1840 – NYC Municipal Archives
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Original detail: Garland Stove
The scattered belongings left in the house include the expected – remnant building supplies, old books, a few lights, a mattress, broken electronics…and a half ton commercial stove – a surprise encounter in the basement kitchen. As it happened, the owners mom ran a restaurant in the neighborhood years ago and the stove was brought back when it closed. Even minimally maintained, it’s a culinary workhorse. It may have eBay value or resale to a restaurant equipment dealer, at least for parts – if we can figure how to get it out. When it was brought in thirty years ago, the stoop was gone (the original was wood, like the facade), and it squeezed through the front without having to angle through the current vestibule. The other articles left within the house read like a list of yard sale leftovers, though some of the lot hopes to get a closer look.
Squib History: The Garland Stove was introduced in Detroit, back in 1860‘s Civil War era by brothers Jeremiah and James Dwyer. They started out with potbellied models for heating, and soon added cooking stoves. The industry was helped along by the shipping industry on the Great Lakes and Iron ore from upper Michigan, and made Detroit the “Potbelly Stove Capital”. And the Garland Stove became a symbol of Detroit’s manufacturing strength in the late nineteenth century – building the road for the automobile industry that would follow.
Mohawk Maker Quarterly Feature
Sawkill Lumber Co. is featured in issue no. 2 of the Mohawk Maker Quarterly. The focus is “Mastery of Materials”, and the spot include’s a pic of the Bellboy Watertower Chair for the 12 x 12 exhibition and a load of salvaged timbers. Some other makers in the Mohawk piece include DODOcase, Almanac Beer Company, Brooklyn Slate, Mast Brothers Chocolate, and Juniper Ridge.
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Sawkill Assists UN Green Star Award for NYC
‘Individuals and organizations from around the world who have confronted environmental emergencies ranging from the Fukushima nuclear disaster and Hurricane Sandy, to forest fires and climate change, were honoured on 2 September 2013 as recipients of the third Green Star Awards.’ The City of New York was among those honored for their recycling efforts in the months following last years super storm. As mentioned in an earlier post, the city coordinated a broad line up of public and private groups for the task. The salvage work at the Rockaway and Coney Island Boardwalk woods, which Sawkill helped to plan, was central to the city’s entry for the award. Green Star was started by former USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev as a way to create a “Red Cross for the environment”.
