Father Pitt

Here is a good example of how an old factory that’s too attractive to tear down can be refurbished and expanded to make a modern office building. The Edwin L. Wiegand Co. dealt in “electrical specialties,” and it must have been fairly successful to build this large plant in 1928. The building spent some time as a self-storage facility; but a large upward expansion was added in 2020, and the building was converted to high-class offices. We note with delight that the architect went back to an old idea in factory design: a “sawtooth” roof with northward-facing windows to pull in bright even lighting without direct sun.

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