Re: Poughkeepsie, N.Y. factory

["Colin Verrilli" <verrilli@domain.elided>]

I believe that building, later housing Western Publishing, was recently
torn down. It was on Rt. 9 across from Marist College.

"Matt Needham" <M_Needham@domain.elided> writes:
> "It was a 1913, 6 cylinder, 8 liter, American made Fiat. Forget what city
> but the owner showed me the threshold plate which stated Turin / (US city).
> It's build quality
> appeared to be almost equal to say a Silver Ghost."
>
> "It was Poughkeepsie, NY"
>
> My first job as an architectural intern - in 1987 - was to document (produce
> as-built drawings) a factory turned storage facility in Poughkeepsie.  Yep,
> it was the FIAT factory, wonderful old industrial architecture - sawtooth
> skylights, endcut lumber floors (herringbone pattern), railroad tracks to
> inside of the building, and the wonderful smell of creosote - some 75 years
> later.  There were also college extension courses held inside.  I still have
> the drawings but I thought it was built in 1914 or so.  Could be wrong.
>
> Matt Needham
> '81 Spider Veloce
> San Francisco, CA

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