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Home My WebLink About2017-05-23 1032 email drawings1 Minyard, Brian From:Mcateer, Stephan Sent:Tuesday, May 23, 2017 10:32 AM To:Curry, Caran; Jones, Amanda B. Cc:'tim heiple'; Minyard, Brian Subject:RE: Museum Porch Drawings Great. I am ready to get this project out to bid and construction started. . . . . . I have grown weary of having folks say “You know your porches are about to fall down?” Once construction starts I’m sure they will start complaining about all the mess and inconvenience. Thanks for all your hard work on the project. Keeping fingers crossed on the grant. Stephan McAteer, Director MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History 503 E. 9th St. Little Rock, AR 72202 501-376-4602 501-376-4597 FAX www.arkmilitaryheritage.com From: Curry, Caran Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2017 10:14 AM To: Mcateer, Stephan; Jones, Amanda B. Cc: 'tim heiple'; Minyard, Brian Subject: RE: Museum Porch Drawings That is great news. I forwarded the email to heritage hoping to get a bite……. Caran Curry | Grants Manager City of Little Rock (O) 501-371-4583 | (C ) 501-952-5792 500 West Markham | Little Rock, AR 72201 From: Mcateer, Stephan Sent: Monday, May 22, 2017 3:31 PM To: Curry, Caran; Jones, Amanda B. Cc: 'tim heiple'; Minyard, Brian Subject: FW: Museum Porch Drawings See below Mark Chavez signing off on the porch renovation drawings. Stephan Stephan McAteer, Director MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History 503 E. 9th St. Little Rock, AR 72202 501-376-4602 501-376-4597 FAX www.arkmilitaryheritage.com From: Chavez, Mark [mailto:mark_chavez@nps.gov] Sent: Monday, May 22, 2017 1:22 PM 2 To: Mcateer, Stephan Subject: Re: Museum Porch Drawings Stephan - Yes - all is well with the revised drawings and corrections made. Mark On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 12:45 PM, Mcateer, Stephan <SMcateer@littlerock.gov> wrote: Mark, Can you tell me if you feel comfortable signing off on the porch renovation drawings that Tim Heiple has developed? I believe we addressed the last concerns you had with the drainage on the front east porch where the accessible lift is located. It will help as we plan for the next steps if we know you are OK with the plans. Thanks. Stephan Stephan McAteer, Director MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History 503 E. 9th St. Little Rock, AR 72202 501-376-4602 501-376-4597 FAX www.arkmilitaryheritage.com From: Chavez, Mark [mailto:mark_chavez@nps.gov] Sent: Friday, May 19, 2017 2:21 PM To: Mcateer, Stephan Subject: Re: FW: Pierced Brick Masonry Walls Excellent! Thanks! On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 12:56 PM, Mcateer, Stephan <SMcateer@littlerock.gov> wrote: Mark, Hey, who said historic preservation would be easy. . . . LOL. I have asked Tim to provide answers to some of the questions. I will forward those to you. I can answer some of them myself: 3 1) The building currently has a 4 pipe chiller system, but it is 25 years old and undersized for the building, Engineers tell us it would be impossible to bring it up to current specifications. It is inefficient and difficult to get access to for maintenance and repairs. The condenser for the current system in located just south of the brick building behind the museum at the southwest corner. You should be able to see it on the Google map. That location is too far for the location of condensers for the proposed new system, hence our challenge. 2. The proposed condensers are 8' x 8' x 5' tall. Given this opportunity, we want to make sure to design a new system that will handle the needs for a 12,000 sf historic structure.The enclosure is as large as it is because of the need to provide access for maintenance. 3. The engineers are already planning to place much of the system's mechanical systems under the back porches, plus the condensers would need more air circulation. 4) I have asked Tim to move the location further away from the building and sidewalk, as well as further south, although we are limited in how far removed we can place them. Tim has proposed placing them more in line with the south porch and possibly orienting them eat-west instead of north-south. 5) The tree grove has two cedars, one of which is dying and the other could easily be removed. That would still leave the magnolias to provide some screening. 6) I will share the perforated brick wall images with Tim. He mentioned this morning that the enclosure is as large as it is because of the need to allow room on two sides of the condensers for service. Whatever enclosure is designed will be about 5 - 6 feet tall. Tim - feel free to chime in on anything I have left out. Thanks. Stephan ________________________________ From: Chavez, Mark <mark_chavez@nps.gov> Sent: Friday, May 19, 2017 11:34 AM To: Mcateer, Stephan Cc: Franklin Weekley, Rachel Subject: Re: FW: Pierced Brick Masonry Walls Stephan- Boy! This is a tough one! Some questions - kind of backing-up a bit: 1) Is the building air conditioned now? If so where are the condensers? 2) The proposed condensers are now seeming large (we are charged with trying to hide a lot). Is based on engineering calculations? Is there any way to reduce the size? 3) I have been looking at as many images as I can find on the web, and looked at the front (north) porches - and was wondering if the condensers might be able to go under the south porches. But they may need a lot more air circulation on tops and sides..... just exploring as much as I can. 4) Can you find out what the maximum distance from the building the condensers need to be placed. Can they go further south? Right now Tim is showing them kind of lining up with the east wall of the building. Further south "disconnects" them more from the NHL. 5) Let's try at all possible to keep those trees on the east side of the building. They may not be allowing the 4 grass to grow, but they do provide needed screening. Speaking of which - we may want to add even more plantings around whatever screening system we decide on. 6) The perforated brick walls: nice looking (these would block more of the appearance of the condensers - the Google images show the condensers behind the lattice - maybe a tighter lattice would hide more.....), but we would be adding even more modern architectural elements to the site. From a distance the perforated walls might read as a solid wall. Can Tim do up some similar Google images using perforated brick walls? Mark On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 7:01 PM, Mcateer, Stephan <SMcateer@littlerock.gov<mailto:SMcateer@littlerock.gov>> wrote: Mark and Rachel, I googled pierced brick masonry walls and found some that I wanted to pass along. Your thoughts on something like this as an enclosure around the condensers? Stephan ________________________________ From: Sdmcateer2@aol.com<mailto:Sdmcateer2@aol.com> <Sdmcateer2@aol.com<mailto:Sdmcateer2@aol.com>> Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2017 6:57 PM To: Mcateer, Stephan Subject: Pierced Brick Masonry Walls [http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/97/97/08/979708b7a4557582ac4532124377bd7a.jpg] [http://homebuilding.thefuntimesguide.com/images/blogs/brick_column_and_pierced_brick_wall.JPG] [http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/f7/f8/2d/f7f82dc1da0f9682cbd05f03965dbefb.jpg] -- Mark Chavez, Historical Architect History and National Register Programs Midwest Regional Office 601 Riverfront Dr., Omaha, NE 68102-4226 402.661.1920 – voice 402.661.1921 – fax www.nps.gov/history/nhl<http://www.nps.gov/history/nhl> The National Park Service cares for special places saved by the American people so that all may experience our heritage. -- 5 Mark Chavez, Historical Architect History and National Register Programs Midwest Regional Office 601 Riverfront Dr., Omaha, NE 68102-4226 402.661.1920 – voice 402.661.1921 – fax www.nps.gov/history/nhl The National Park Service cares for special places saved by the American people so that all may experience our heritage. -- Mark Chavez, Historical Architect History and National Register Programs Midwest Regional Office 601 Riverfront Dr., Omaha, NE 68102-4226 402.661.1920 – voice 402.661.1921 – fax www.nps.gov/history/nhl The National Park Service cares for special places saved by the American people so that all may experience our heritage.