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Boston Hides and Furs Building Damaged by Fire Razed
October 13, 2011
By Record Staff

The empty lot on marginal street where a 19th Century brick warehouse building once stood will be used as a parking lot by Boston Hides and Furs.

First the Boston Hides and Furs building on Marginal Street burned. Then came the tropical storm a few weeks back and the building’s roof collapsed.

Company officials said the building was largely

The Testa Company took the old warehouse down to the ground earlier this week. Shown above are the wreckers doing their thing.

unused during the past 20 years.

Earlier this week, the building was torn down and its major wooden support beams salvaged by a Chelsea company for reuse at another location.

Boston Hides and Furs officials said

A Chelsea company salvaged the 150 year old wooden beams from the torn down structure and will be sending them elsewhere for reuse.

the square of land the building stood on will be used as a parking lot.

“We’re not doing anything with it. It will be a parking lot,” said company official Antionette Adreatola.

The buildings major wooden beams were salvaged by Arnold Jarmak, the owner of a local company dealing in wood reclamation projects.

Jarmak’s company recently supplied the wood for the flooring used in the new Legal Seafoods in the seaport area of the waterfront in Boston.

Boston Hides and Furs officials said they were considering taking some action against the city because of the lengthy and costly fire watch placed on the rain soaked building by the fire department after the roof collapsed.

“There was nothing inside the building that could burn,” said the official.

Pier into the future. - Video by John Wilcox , Article by Colneth Smiley Jr

Pier into the future
Historic preservation on menu at new Legal Harborside eatery
By Colneth Smiley Jr. (Boston Herald)
Sunday, April 24, 2011

The new Legal Sea Foods eatery standing in the place of the old Jimmy’s Harborside is paying homage to history with wood floors made from the pilings that stood under its predecessor for nearly a century.

“The floor literally held up Jimmy’s Harborside for 85 years and we hope it provides solid grounding for Legal Harborside for another 85,” said Roger Berkowitz, president and CEO of Legal Sea Foods. He said the wood could bring “good karma” to the new three-story restaurant that opened this month.

The floor was crafted by Antique Lumber Corp. in Chelsea. Owner Arnie Jarmak said the wood came from 45-foot-long pilings that were driven into the mud under the harbor.

When Jimmy’s was demolished, the piles were pulled from the water and sent to an Amish mill where they were cut into boards, air dried for at least four years, then kiln dried before being installed across the 2,000-square-foot floor of Legal Harborside.

“Boston Harbor is a really special place with an incredible sense of history,” said Jarmak, whose company also salvaged wood from the pier pilings of Bay State Lobster and the old Boston Tea Party museum for other projects.

“There’s so much history here and the old buildings are disappearing, so we go around and save what we can of the wood,” he said.
smiley@bostonherald.com

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