Moment at 0:36 in He watched labourers fail to scrape cement off a tool, and built a house out of it by Awesome Architecture.
Every beam, floor and roof is Portland cement concrete reinforced with light iron beams and rods — over thirteen thousand square feet of floor and roof. So are the stairs, the balconies and the porch columns. By his own account wood was allowed in four places: window sashes, doors and their frames, the baseboards and the stair rails. He tested a floor before he trusted it. An eighteen foot span, loaded with casks of plaster into a thirty ton triangular stack, sustained without any injury to the floor or measurable permanent deflection. Finished in 1876 and still standing, now a private house on the New York state line.
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