Portal project draft D (James P. Falt)

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only steps from the damaged facade, the original supporters of the library left a legacy 

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flanking a pair of windows are a pair of framed photos of people involved in the building of the library. In the right framed panel, listed as number 2 is "James P. Falt, Springfield, Mass, Contractor for freestone work." (click on images to enlarge them). 
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His portrait is above. 


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an initial internet image search yields a copy of an ad he ran in a stone industry trade magazine here. 
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overall page from the American Architect and Building News, p. xix, October 28, 1898. 

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mentions red sandstone, the type of stone used on our building. 

mentions the Carlisle Quarries in Springfield, Mass. 
over the years he operated several quarries in the Springfield, MA area including 
Carlisle
Longmeadow 
Sixteen Acres 

According to historian Bruce Moore there were over one hundred quarries in the area. See this link here. 

The ad refers to "delivered at any railroad point."

for the library this would have probably been .... Conway freight? still there? 

other archival, including library edition, ancestry 
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map Falt carlisle? or longmeadow? 
neighborhood known as "sixteen acres"
compare with modern gmap, usgs maps...
click on images to enlarge them.  

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Note the Falt stone sheds and quarry northeast of Venturers Pond and another Falt quarry east of Bass Pond. (use paint to yellow or red box these in) 

compare to modern gmap, usgs, etc. 
lidar? 



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we have already contacted the Springfield library and history museum and 
contributed the following 

turn pdf to jpeg using bob adobe 


ongoing research to find if anything remains of the original quarry 


sandstone quarry and sculpting techniques similar to our own Redstone granite quarry, but with some differences. and so we will explore 

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later in career moved to Indiana but according to ads, etc. continued to operate quarry and stone cutting operations in and around Springfield, Mass Armory Street Bridge 

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longmeadow 
steam 

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