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1. [CBQ] Kable Brothers Plant (score: 1)
Author: "Richard Gortowski via groups.io" <rgortowski=aol.com@groups.io>
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2020 18:39:07 +0000 (UTC)
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/archives/BRHSLIST/2020-04/msg00165.html (10,751 bytes)

2. Re: [CBQ] Kable Brothers Plant (score: 1)
Author: "Duncan Cameron" <c.duncan.cameron@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2020 15:44:11 -0400
Rolled roofing can start out black and fade to gray.  Just a guess. Duncan Cameron _._,_._,_ Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#59386) | Reply To Group
/archives/BRHSLIST/2020-04/msg00166.html (9,678 bytes)

3. Re: [CBQ] Kable Brothers Plant (score: 1)
Author: "Richard Townsend via groups.io" <richtownsend=netscape.net@groups.io>
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2020 20:35:57 +0000 (UTC)
I'll take a pure shot in the dark: Elaterite roofing from the Western Elaterite Roofing Company. But there were many other prepared roofing materials fro many other manufacturers. Richard Townsend Li
/archives/BRHSLIST/2020-04/msg00167.html (11,687 bytes)

4. Re: [CBQ] Kable Brothers Plant (score: 1)
Author: "Richard Gortowski via groups.io" <rgortowski=aol.com@groups.io>
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2020 21:44:34 +0000 (UTC)
Duncan, You can clearly see the contrast between the black roof of the original structure and the light roof of the new construction. When they added the addition to the original newer portion, they
/archives/BRHSLIST/2020-04/msg00168.html (11,037 bytes)

5. Re: [CBQ] Kable Brothers Plant (score: 1)
Author: "Hudson Leighton" <hudsonl@skypoint.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2020 17:52:02 -0700
I have seen older tar paper type roofing with a layer of what appeared to be aluminum paint. -Hudson _._,_._,_ Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#59389)
/archives/BRHSLIST/2020-04/msg00169.html (10,086 bytes)

6. Re: [CBQ] Kable Brothers Plant (score: 1)
Author: "Steven Holding" <sholding@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 02:57:45 +0000 (UTC)
I would go with Duncan and Hudson say. I once helped paint a roof with that aluminum paint. Another idea might be tar and stone with the light bouncing off the lighter stone. Some of the newer buildi
/archives/BRHSLIST/2020-04/msg00170.html (11,654 bytes)

7. [CBQ] Kable Brothers Plant (score: 1)
Author: "Richard Gortowski via groups.io" <rgortowski=aol.com@groups.io>
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2021 15:48:27 +0000 (UTC)
List, Let's try this again with the picture attached. Hopefully, you can expand the photo and see the large vertical structure at the end of the building I'm talking about. It's to the right of the l
/archives/BRHSLIST/2021-03/msg00133.html (13,464 bytes)

8. Re: [CBQ] Kable Brothers Plant (score: 1)
Author: "james miller" <jimbro67@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2021 11:35:29 -0500
Good question Rich. It almost looks like an open top coal tower. Looked at Sanborn maps but nothing after 1920's which might show expanded plant construction. On Sun, Mar 21, 2021, 10:49 AM Richard G
/archives/BRHSLIST/2021-03/msg00134.html (14,031 bytes)

9. Re: [CBQ] Kable Brothers Plant (score: 1)
Author: "Richard Townsend via groups.io" <richtownsend=netscape.net@groups.io>
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2021 16:43:09 +0000 (UTC)
My first thought was that it is a radiator for cooling water that is somehow used in the plant. Water enters at the top and trickles down through air that is blown upward. What makes me think so is t
/archives/BRHSLIST/2021-03/msg00135.html (11,297 bytes)

10. Re: [CBQ] Kable Brothers Plant (score: 1)
Author: "Tom Mack via groups.io" <thommack=yahoo.com@groups.io>
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 03:58:03 -0700
James, Where did you find the Sanborn maps for Mt. Morris? Are they online? -- Tom Mack Cincinnati, OH _._,_._,_ Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#6172
/archives/BRHSLIST/2021-03/msg00142.html (11,218 bytes)

11. Re: [CBQ] Kable Brothers Plant (score: 1)
Author: "kerhart@frontier.com" <kerhart@frontier.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 11:58:46 +0000 (UTC)
The plant is being torn down as we write. The demolition has started on the east end looking northwest from the corner of Wesley and Sunset which is the old brick part of the plant. Pallets are being
/archives/BRHSLIST/2021-03/msg00143.html (11,189 bytes)

12. Re: [CBQ] Kable Brothers Plant (score: 1)
Author: "james miller" <jimbro67@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 07:09:05 -0500
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/archives/BRHSLIST/2021-03/msg00144.html (11,847 bytes)

13. Re: [CBQ] Kable Brothers Plant (score: 1)
Author: "Tom Whitt" <twhitt86@comcast.net>
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 08:12:17 -0700
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/archives/BRHSLIST/2021-03/msg00145.html (11,754 bytes)

14. Re: [CBQ] Kable Brothers Plant (score: 1)
Author: "Kirby Lambert" <kirby@prospectortech.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 10:49:37 -0500
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/archives/BRHSLIST/2021-03/msg00147.html (13,199 bytes)

15. Re: [CBQ] Kable Brothers Plant (score: 1)
Author: "Kirby Lambert" <kirby@prospectortech.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 11:29:19 -0500
Rich: Do you know an apps. date of the photo. Here is a link to a postcard showing an earlier view of the plant before all of the skylights that would have also provided ventilation were closed o, co
/archives/BRHSLIST/2021-03/msg00149.html (15,591 bytes)

16. Re: [CBQ] Kable Brothers Plant (score: 1)
Author: "Richard Gortowski via groups.io" <rgortowski=aol.com@groups.io>
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 17:13:14 +0000 (UTC)
Kirby, the caption in the Zephyr said that photo was from the early 60's. That same tower shows up in the circa 1948 photo in the Kable self-published history book. Gone in later photos. Thanks to ev
/archives/BRHSLIST/2021-03/msg00150.html (16,804 bytes)

17. Re: [CBQ] Kable Brothers Plant (score: 1)
Author: "Richard Gortowski via groups.io" <rgortowski=aol.com@groups.io>
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 17:15:11 +0000 (UTC)
By the way, that post card has a lot of issues, including the fact that the sawtooth roof (for bringing in light) is facing the wrong way... --Original Message-- From: Kirby Lambert <kirby@prospector
/archives/BRHSLIST/2021-03/msg00151.html (16,609 bytes)

18. Re: [CBQ] Kable Brothers Plant (score: 1)
Author: "Kirby Lambert" <kirby@prospectortech.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 13:43:07 -0500
From what I could tell the roof-line ran east & west with the skylights facing basically south. The picture you posted shows a revised east & west roof-line and no Skylights. The Google Earth aerial
/archives/BRHSLIST/2021-03/msg00152.html (19,192 bytes)

19. Re: [CBQ] Kable Brothers Plant (score: 1)
Author: "Kirby Lambert" <kirby@prospectortech.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 15:00:11 -0500
Rich: There is an archive of Kable records at Northern Illinois University: https://archon.lib.niu.edu/?p=collections/findingaid&id=20&q= Because of the pandemic they are currently unavailable to the
/archives/BRHSLIST/2021-03/msg00154.html (18,413 bytes)

20. Re: [CBQ] Kable Brothers Plant (score: 1)
Author: "Robert Herrick" <rdherrick@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 15:44:39 -0700
Rich--these are the NIU records I mentioned from which I made a quick drawing of the 1923 addition. Bob Herrick _._,_._,_ Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Onli
/archives/BRHSLIST/2021-03/msg00158.html (11,434 bytes)


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