building the new, bigger and better Shabbos House Chabad Jewish Student Center
| Framing for Front Covered Porch |
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| Support framing for covered front porch at main Fuller Road side entrance. | Support framing in covered porch for upper bay window above main entrance. | |
| Upper Floor Framing Going Up |
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| Upper floor wall framing went in just after the New Year in January 2009. | ||
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| Front Lobby Stairwell area to connect 3 floors. | Workmen at back stairwell window area. | |
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| Upper floor walls and window openings of the new Shabbos House facing north - and the old Shabbos House and the UAlbany campus. | ||
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| Despite the cold winter weather, and a number of wintry storms, the construction team worked nearly every weekday. | ||
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| Visible here are the doorways to the mens and womens bathrooms, a mechanical room and the washing station. Above it are the trusses for the upper floor, and some of the upper floor external wall is also visible. This is looking from what will be the main room toward north - toward campus. | ||
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| The eastern-most set of triangular bays, upper in family portion, lower in 1-story portion of main room. | The construction trailer is just outside the main entrance, lobby entrance is visible on main floor, worker at saw is on upper floor in what will be the Library / Family Room. | |
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| Work continues on outer walls on upper level. | ||
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| Looking at upper level above L-R: Bay window for Office, Library Room in center, both have opening in framing for windows looking down into Main Room, further on right (without internal framing yet) is bathroom and guestroom area on upper floor. | ||
| Upper Floor Front |
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| On right, office bay is visible, as well as the last set of bays toward rear of house. In the center front of upper floor is the Bay-Window of Library Room / Family Room extending over (what will be) the rooftop of covered front porch. | ||
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| In this photo, the upper floor front framing is complete, and cover sheeting has been cut away to show spaces for upper floor front windows looking out toward Fuller Road. | ||
| Southern Wall 2-stories |
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| The southern 2-story wall of the main room had to be built in one piece on the floor and hoisted into place by crane, as you can see in this photo. The worker on left, misleading as it seems, is not holding it all by himself. | ||
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| The wall is in place, and being affixed. There are two sets of triangular double-bays in this 2-story portion of the main room, with additional windows in the straight portions of the wall as well. | ||
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| Inside the main room after the southern wall went up. | ||
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| Affixing the southern wall on its western side. The workers are on the upper floor in what will be the office. | Framing team manager looking out from the upper floor bay window toward Fuller Road. | |
| Roof-Trusses in Place |
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| Rabbi Mendel and Raizy standing in what will be the Main Room of the new Shabbos House. | ||
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| The main room looking toward its north-western corner. Framing of surrounding rooms on both the main and upper floors is visible. Triangular bays jut out from the upper floor as well, looking down into the main room. | ||
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| View of the upper floor inside wall looking into the Main Room double-story. The north side of the roof was covered at the time of this photo. | ||
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| The Fuller Road facing front roof face being hoisted into place by crane. This picture should really be further up on this page, as it preceded the earlier photos. | ||
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| The roof trusses are being lifted into place by crane. | ||
| First real glimpse of the new building |
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| Here's a photo of the new Shabbos House building taken from across the street on Mercer corner Fuller Road. This is the first photo where you can get a great idea of what the building will look like. All the roof trusses are up, in this photo, quite a few of the plywood boards are in place on the northern side. | ||
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| This photo taken from across Fuller Road, with a view of the building's southern side (facing away from campus, toward Western Ave). | ||