Ford restoration

[Jim Garrett]

The box was intact through the renovations turning the theater into a office/warehouse. If I'm correct, when they constructed the second and third floors, they kept a center atrium (if you would call it an atrium). Rich Smyth has found and old Washington Star article that mentioned the box being kept and government clerk work areas built around the box. With the 1893 collapse, everything came crushing down into the basement with a complete loss of the box and most of the internal structure.

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I believe I was told that Ford's has the original metal roof.