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Warehouse District - SCAR2010 Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 5/27/2010
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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This cache is for SCAR2010 and should not be sought out until
after 5:30 on May 28th, 2010. Any logs before that will be
deleted.

You are looking for a bison tube that contains only a log so please bring your own pen. You'll need a telescoping magnet in order to retrieve it. Cache is located in the historic warehouse district. From the cache site you can see the Rumley Building, Buckwold Building, MacKenzie & Thayer Warehouse & Goodyear building.

Rumley Building, 226 Pacific Ave.
This is Saskatoon 's best example of the "North American Warehouse" architecture that was common at the time of its construction in 1912. As it was built to assemble and showcase the huge tractors of the Rumely Company, the floors were made of concrete nine inches thick. The main floor of the building was 25% office and 75% showroom space, with the remaining floors being for assembly and display of machinery. In order to get the heavy equipment between floors, the building was equipped with a huge 12 by 25 foot freight elevator. The company went into receivership in 1915 and after several reincarnations, became Allis-Chalmers Rumely Ltd. in 1931. If you look at the top of the building you will see the letter "R" in several places on the brickwork of the façade. They stood for the original M. Rumely Company that built the building. Several other Rumely logos can also been seen on the façade. This building is the identical twin of another Rumely warehouse in Witchita, Kansas. In 2007, Paradigm Developments proposed that the vacant top three floors of the building be converted into loft condominiums. The plan was approved and renovations were done, including the addition of balconies to the south side of the building.



Buckwold Building 75 24th Street East
The Buckwold Building (formerly Marshall-Wells Ltd) was designed by J. Melrose Morrison of Saskatoon in 1928. Stantec Architecture renovated the building in 2002 to re-use the functional space as a multi-tenant office building. The concrete columns, capitals and ceilings, brick walls and original rainwater leaders were exposed on the interior. New windows reminiscent of the Chicago style and window awnings were designed to compliment the building’s patterned brick and limestone exterior detailing


MacKenzie & Thayer Warehouse, 303 Pacific Ave.
This 1928 warehouse was originally built to house MacLeod's, who stayed in the building until the mid 1940s. In the 60s MacKenzie and Thayer used the building as part of its builder supply operations. The building went through a series of retail and nightclub tenants before settling into a new life as a music warehouse. R.M. "Monty" Thayer, founder of MacKenzie & Thayer, came to Saskatoon in 1907 and was a city city "booster" for all of his life.


Goodyear Building 302 Pacific Avenue
Engraved above the door on the west side of this building it says "Goodyear Building". That is all the info we have been able to find out. The building is currently home to Jax Nightclub.

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