Building next to J.B. Ford (Superior, Wisc)

[Mr Link]

I believe this was the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company dock. See figure 22 in the following link:


http://books.google.com/books?id=tEMSAA ... ng&f=false

[John H]

Go back to the News Photo Gallery for Sept 26 and there is a better picture of the J. B. Ford and the building.

[sh71382]

Where would one go if wanting to speak with the dock operators or dock owners? Is there an office in Duluth/Superior?

[hausen]

No idea about the original name. Was built to store and transship anthracite coal, which unlike most other kinds of coal needs to be protected from weather/moisture. The oddly-shaped roof line accommodated two bridge cranes whose waterside booms extended out through the openings on the north face of the building to unload a ship. The cranes' clamshell buckets then squeezed in through the openings and traveled back along the length of the cranes to drop the coal onto an indoor stockpile.

[duluthian]

What was the historic name? I can't find any references to what it was built as, or when, after spending several hours googling. Thank you for the info.

[hausen]

I believe the building is still used to store grain as a part of the Gavilon / Peavey facility.

[Guest]

The building was origionally a hard coal storage facility. It was used for storage of grain products starting in the 70's and general storage after that.

[duluthian]

Anyone know anything about the building next to which J.B. Ford is docked?

Ship info page: http://www.boatnerd.com/pictures/fleet/jbford.htm

Ship + building: