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08/28/2024

Telluride Arts Awarded $750,000 for Restoration of Historic Transfer Warehouse 🎉 🏆 National Park Service and partner agencies award $25.7 million to preserve significant historic sites and collections

Telluride Arts District has been awarded a $750,000 Save America’s Treasures grant in support of the stabilization of the Transfer Warehouse.

The National Park Service (NPS), in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute for Museum and Library Services, awards these grants annually to support the preservation of nationally significant historic properties and collections. The Transfer Warehouse is one of 59 projects funded this year and the only award granted in the State of Colorado.

“This award is a testament not only to the cultural and historic significance of the Transfer Warehouse,” says Telluride Arts Executive Director Gene Sobczak, “but also to the persistence and tireless efforts of my predecessor, Kate Jones, her colleagues and our board of directors, to secure financial support for this local treasure.”

The Save America’s Treasures grant will fund masonry stabilization to preserve the existing historic materials of the Transfer Warehouse so that the final phase of construction can be conducted.

“The Save America’s Treasures program began 25 years ago and continues to enable communities across the United States to preserve and conserve their nationally significant historic properties and collections,” said NPS Director Chuck Sams. “It’s fitting to celebrate this milestone anniversary through a wide range of projects that help to pass the full history of America and its people down to future generations.”

05/08/2024

History carved in stone 🧱

The is a Historic Landmark at the ❤️ of Telluride’s National Historic Landmark District. Built in 1906, the Transfer Warehouse was a vibrant hub of activity and an axis for regional transportation until its roof caved in 1979.

Well into the 1930’s, the Telluride Transfer Company hauled everything that came in and out of the area. Mules, horses, buggies and eventually trucks transported goods such as gold, silver, cash, mail, steel, groceries and even people over the rugged mountain passes by day returning to the Transfer Warehouse to restock by night.

The building maintained its central role in the community as a filling station and garage. In 1968, the founder of the Telluride Ski Resort Joe Zoline, purchased the property along with the Transfer Company’s hauling permit in order to ferry skiers from Telluride to the first lifts in Mountain Village.

In 1979, unheated and under a heavy snow load, the roof collapsed, commencing a 40-year period of deterioration and decay. In 2017, Telluride Arts purchased and stabilized the building with the vision of creating a community cultural center.

Follow along this Summer Season as we bring life a new era for this cherished landmark. You won’t want to miss the updates!! 🚜🔩🔨

02/14/2024

Valentine Gift Idea ❤️ Say it in Stone

A handful of small pieces of the original sandstones from
the historic Telluride Transfer Warehouse are all wrapped up with a ribbon and available to accompany your stone naming donation! Each stone comes with a certificate registering the owner’s name(s) with the stone number of your choice.

Naming a stone starts at $100. Like naming stars, the stones will not actually be physically inscribed but will be identified through digital and print media in the building and on the web.

Come by at 220 W Colorado between 12-6pm most days!

Art and Jewelry also available! ✨✨

01/30/2024

The Patient Walls by Samantha Tisdel Wright for Shelter Magazine who has skillfully composed the most comprehensive story of the past, present, and future of the 📰

Excerpt from the article:
UNDER PRESSURE
“In preperation for this next step, Carlo Citto, and engineer from Atkinson Nolan & Associated and colleagues from Solmaz Engineering were on site last September to do a little compression testing on the stone walls. 🧱 It looked like open wall surgery. As Citto described the process in a video they cut two slots in a wall in the back of the building, and stuck some hydraulic devices into the slots to pressurize the masonry in between them. Pressure transducers were attached to the “patient” walls like a tangled mess of blood pressure cuffs and heart rate monitors. The engineers applied pressure to portions of the stone and mortar, while monitoring the deformation between the two slots, and collected data on their strength. Good news again: the walls held up well. In a final fortifying step, crews will visit the site after the CIF sets up. They’ll vertically core the walls, and insert rows of stainless steel reinforcing bars all the way down into the jet grout columns, essentially pinning the walls. After that Nico Mainier, the excavator will start the basement. Mainier learned his craft from his uncle in the French alps and has found his niche in Telluride working on historic rest projects such as Lewis Mill, Matterhorn Hill, and the Bridal Veil Powerhouse. “

Read the full story in the link in bio 🔗 & stay tuned as we share more from the article.

01/24/2024

The Patient Walls by Samantha Tisdel Wright for Shelter Magazine who has skillfully composed the most comprehensive story of the past, present, and future of the Transfer Warehouse to date!

Excerpt from the article:

THE BIG DRILL 🏗️
Folks around Telluride are used to seeing historic houses plucked off the ground like Monopoly board game pieces and temporarily parked out in the yard or road while new basements are dug and new foundations poured.The historic unreinforced stone masonry walls of the Transfer Warehouse can’t be lifted up and moved around like that. So project engineers have recently been testing a specialized method called jet grouting to build the Warehouse a new foundation.
The method involves drilling deep holes in the earth, then injecting these holes with highly pressurized watery cement that mixes with the surrounding sands and gravels underground and sets up into solid concrete columns. Jet grouting as a restoration technique has been around for a while, but the process looked pretty high tech when crews with various engineering firms arrived to test it out at the Transfer Warehouse in mid-October. They set up towering drill rigs, silos, and mixers, and sluiced batches of soft-serve cement slurry up and over the elderly Warehouse walls, via a truck-mounted boom pump, to feed a pressurized pumping machine parked in the middle of the Warehouse. The operator of this contraption expertly injected seven six-foot-diameter grout columns 30 feet deep into the testing zone at pressures of up to 4,000 psi.This will be done by “tying” the inner and outer walls together with specialized parts, then drilling holes in the mortar joints, and pumping the rubble-filled wall innards full of very runny grout (engineers call this stuff “compatible injected fill” or CIF). The liquid mixture will slowly set up and glue together the inner and outer layers of the walls to make them strong and solid (think: cement-and-rubble-filled ice cream sandwich).

Read the full story by Shelter Magazine here ➡️
https://issuu.com/telluride_arts/docs/transfer_warehouse-_shelter_magazine_2023

DONATE TODAY ❤️https://telluridearts.kindful.com/?campaign=1181513

01/22/2024

Be a part of the foundation of this treasured landmark that will serve the community of Telluride for generations to come.

Built in 1906, the was a vital place of exchange for over a century. Once the hub for the transfer of goods and supplies, it is now slated to become a new public center for the transfer of arts and ideas.

We invite you to join the effort to rebuild the site and create a new space that will welcome, connect, and uplift our whole community.

Sponsor a stone and register it with your name, commemorate a loved one, a pet, or buy a constellation for your family. Stones start at $100.

Like naming stars, the stones will not actually be physically inscribed but will be identified through digital and print media in the building and on the web.

With your contribution, you will be issued an official certificate with the name and number of your stone(s).

FOR A LIMITED TIME: A limited number of physical stones found onsite at the Transfer Warehouse during the restoration process are for sale at the Telluride Arts Gallery.

If you need a quick gift, stop by the and pick-up a stone, pre-wrapped and waiting for you to share a little bit of Telluride history with a friend. 🎁

01/15/2024

The Patient Walls by Samantha Tisdel Wright for Shelter Magazine
who has skillfully composed the most comprehensive story of the past, present, and future of the Transfer Warehouse to date!

Excerpt from the article:
"The chapter of delays is done, and the chapter of construction has begun. While the interior space has been closed to events since last year, there is plenty of activity going on inside the walls. "We've been in testing mode, digging holes, exposing the bottom of the walls," Kate Jones said. Turns out, the bones of the building have all kinds of hidden tales to tell. These mysteries are now being revealed as structural forensic work at the site gets underway. Last summer's exploratory digs uncov-ered—Surprise!—an underground sandstone wall delineating a full basement in the first third of the building closest to Fir Street. The basement was likely filled in sometime in the 1930s, around the time that the Warehouse morphed from its livery stable days into a filling station and garage. Sophisticated radar and LiDAR imaging technology mapped the exterior and interior layers of the sandstone walls, and the loose rubble fill and empty spaces within, confirming the existence of the building's original ventilation system. Vertical vents ran along the walls from the historic basement, up into what was once the hayloft, to pull cold air in and circulate it throughout the building. The system was considered to be quite cutting edge at the time. Now, a new generation of state-of-the-art construction methods will protect the old walls by bringing them up to modern engineering standards."

Read the full story by Shelter Magazine here ➡️ Stay tuned as we share more

01/04/2024

Reminiscing on past events! ✨🎶 This photo snapped during an electric weekend 💙

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12/07/2023

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11/20/2023

Ringing in the Winter Season ❄️

11/13/2023

🚨Warehouse Update! 🚨

Masonry solutions international is on site for the next two weeks drilling 30’ cores into the recently poured jet grout columns. They will grout stainless steel rods into the cores, which will cure for 28 days .

Once cured, they will come back on site for a final strength test. 💪

These important steps will determine the strength of the foundation system that has been engineered to stabilize the historic walls.

Stay tuned for more updates!

10/28/2023

Restoring strength to the historic Transfer Warehouse by 🗞️

“The on-site testing of the means and methods for restoring the Transfer Warehouse began almost one year ago,” Telluride Arts wrote in a recent letter informing neighbors of the historic building’s upcoming construction schedule. The schedule has involved deploying “cranes, cement mixing equipment and large trucks” — and closing portions of Pacific Avenue — over the last two weeks.

The assemblage of machinery was to facilitate so-called jet-grout testing, which involved drilling and injecting concrete columns in the center of the building.

The process, which has been in use since the 1970s, is often employed in the renovation of historic buildings, where the challenge is to preserve the historic look and feel of a building, restore its strength and modernize its structure.

Read the full article here ⬇️⬇️
www.telluridenews.com/news/article_ab5eca76-7455-11ee-bdc8-a77289afbc0d.html

Credit to our incredible team!

General Contractor- Fortenberry & Ricks

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A Visionary Design

When the crumbling, iconic, beloved Telluride Transfer Warehouse building became available for commercial development in 2016, Telluride Arts, a 501(c)3 founded in 1971, stepped in to provide leadership to secure it as a permanent cultural institution and historic landmark open to all.

In a complex deal with the developer and the Town that took almost three years to negotiate, the organization successfully secured the building as a public space in perpetuity through a deed restriction and façade easement. Last summer they restored and stabilized the crumbling walls, and hired top tier architect firm, Lewis Tsurumaki Lewis to design a new interior that will be home to powerful cultural programming made possible by finely tuned event and exhibition spaces unlike anything else in the region. In fact LTL Architects has been ranked #3 among top design firms in the country on Architect Magazine’s annual “Architect 50” list.

Programming in the space will be centered around a 4,000 SF exhibition space suitable for high caliber curated museum exhibitions, a screening room designed for film and radio, TV and podcast broadcast, a grand piano in the main hall, and extraordinary spaces punctuated by spectacular views and historic stone that have flexibility for small exhibitions, artist pop-ups and a variety of community cultural activities and events.