The foundation may also conceal some brighter lighting over the bathroom's simulated gas fixture so that "you don't kill yourself shaving," he said.
Although the 1870 census lists occupations like gas fixture manufacturer, hardware dealer, builder, lace jobber and florist, that and later directories and census returns list no one connected to the brewery industry.
The light fixtures on the mantels, modern takes on the original gas fixtures, were designed by Cotton "with the cheapest parts".
By inviting executives from the Brooklyn Union Gas Company for drinks, the Ortners persuaded them to restore a brownstone on their block and to renovate it with modern gas fixtures that the company wanted to sell.
For George Hannah, head librarian with the society since 1865, Post designed a double-height reading room on the second and third floors ringed with gas fixtures and good south light.
An initial glimmer that the mansion would not be a dream project came when Tuthill noted to Hamersley, who had hoped to sell the old gas fixtures, that the demolition contractor thought they were without value and "does not care to have anything to do with them".
The rooms were originally lit with gas fixtures, though by 1900, the entire building had been refitted with electric lights.
It still retained a number of significant architectural features, including "the ornate ark and pulpit, central bimah (reader's platform) with etched glass lamps, cantilevered balconies, Gothic vaulted ceiling, and colorful wall paintings"; the lighting included "converted gas fixtures".
Early tenants of the Goelet Building included a gas-fixture manufacturer, Archer, Pancoast & Company; Herts Brothers, a decorating firm; and Fritz & LaRue, a carpet dealer.
Sometimes -- but not often enough -- the printer's proof-reader saves you -- and offends you -- with this cold sign in the margin: and you search the passage and find that the insulter is right -- it doesn't say what you thought it did: the gas-fixtures are there, but you didn't light the jets.
The large prints are time-travel machines packed with myriad details of the Victorian campus, from buildings under construction and repair, to new plantings and pathways, to pumps used for drinking and innovative gas lighting fixtures.
