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Specialized Lifts Could Provide Access to Japanese Landmark
The municipal government in Nagoya, Japan, is considering small, specialized lifts known as “electric baskets” to provide access to the reconstructed Tenshukaku main tower keep at Nagoya Castle in Nagoya,...
Ticket Sales Begin for LIFT 109
Tickets for Battersea Power Station's chimney elevator experience, LIFT 109, are now for sale to the general public (beginning today), the Londonist reports. LIFT 109 gets its name from the...
Wisconsin Museum Elevator Project Nearing Completion
The elevator project for the Rahr-West Art Museum at the historic Villas-Rahr mansion in Wisconsin is close to being completed, Seehafer News reports. Leaders of the museum have been trying...
“The Elevator is the Key” to Indiana Museum Expansion
The Goshen Historical Society announced the opening of the public portion of a fundraising campaign dedicated to expanding the use of the Goshen Historical Museum building in Indiana, The Goshen...
Texas Courthouse Upgrade Considerations Include Elevator
At a meeting of the Presidio County Commissioners Court in Texas in June, William Helm of In*Situ Architecture in El Paso gave a presentation, part of a larger discussion on...
Two High-Speed Elevators for Historic Theater in Buffalo
Two high-speed, six-stop elevators are coming to the historic Shea’s Performing Arts Center in Buffalo, New York, Buffalo Rising reports. Aimed at improving accessibility, the units will be part of...
TKE Elevator Modernization at Historic Texas Tower
TK Elevator (TKE) is modernizing six elevators at the historic ALICO office building in Waco, Texas, a 111-year-old, 282-ft-tall structure that was once the tallest U.S. building west of the...
Nearly 140-Year-Old Building Set to Open First Elevator
Before she died in 2015, Mary Faith Young longed to see the installation of an elevator within a courthouse built in 1883 in Jamestown, North Dakota, The Jamestown Sun reports....
Historic Otis Elevator Turns 100
Many things in the 1920s were made to last. The three-stop elevator in The Woodrow Wilson House in Washington, D.C., is testament to this, turning 100 years old in 2021....
Prague is Repairing Two Historic Paternosters
A story recently posted on expats.cz reports that the disappearing paternoster elevator has yet to see its final demise, thanks to the Czech Republic’s Ministry of Industry and Trade. The government department...
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