This isn’t the sort of thing I usually post about, being that it’s legitimate news and all, but this afternoon (around 3 or so?) at Grove City college we looked out our dorm room windows to see a startling amount of thick black smoke drifting up from somewhere in town.
The Wendell August Forge has been in Grove City since sometime in the 1930s and is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. It caught fire today. I haven’t heard what the cause was yet but the associated press released that it’s “thought to have started in the workshop, where lacquer was sprayed on bronze pieces.”
A few of us walked down and they let us get fairly close to the scene. The fire was under control but still going pretty strong when we got there. Jonathan Durfee got some pictures.
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