History

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...