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The entry canopy structures are completed. \u00a0The metal roofing and the gutter between the roof and the building are the next steps. \u00a0On the west side, the building sign is installed. The building is named \u00a0the Barbey Maritime Center following a generous donation to the Museum by the Barbey family that have a strong history both with maritime activities on Columbia as well as Astoria.<\/p>\n
The interior trim is being installed and painted. \u00a0The building has plenty of natural light streaming into the spaces. \u00a0So much so, that I finally have to backtrack a bit on the comments I have made in the past about the original design. \u00a0I had questioned why the architect had done a building with a flat roof and no overhangs. \u00a0While I still question the lack of protection at the doors, I realize now that the\u00a0intent was to bring in as much natural light as possible, something that was difficult to appreciate when the windows had been boarded up until fairly recently in the renovation. \u00a0The design allows for very tall windows that bring light well into the building. \u00a0The construction lights were superfluous on a nice sunny day. The entry canopy structures are completed. \u00a0The metal roofing and the gutter between the roof and the building are the next steps. \u00a0On the west side, the building sign is installed. The building is named \u00a0the Barbey Maritime Center following a generous donation to the Museum by the Barbey family that have a strong […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[119,35,34,19],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-astoria","tag-barbey-maritime-center","tag-depot","tag-historic-preservation-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jayraskinarchitect.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jayraskinarchitect.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jayraskinarchitect.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jayraskinarchitect.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jayraskinarchitect.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.jayraskinarchitect.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":839,"href":"https:\/\/www.jayraskinarchitect.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions\/839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jayraskinarchitect.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jayraskinarchitect.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jayraskinarchitect.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jayraskinarchitect.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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