Through the doors of the Fine Arts Building and into the hallway, a bank of elevators sits on the left. Their dark gold doors are embossed with raised carvings of wreaths and frame dark windows that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An elevator operator at the Commodore condominiums takes a resident of the 95-year-old building to her unit. History lost.

Nearly every New Yorker has to push a button and often wait some time for their automated elevator to arrive. Tony Sciallia, meanwhile, spends his days in a crisp gray uniform, pulling shut an ...

Walking into the Commodore condominiums is like taking a step back in time. The furniture in the dark Spanish-style lobby is the same furniture that was there the day it opened in 1929. While some of ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- It's no secret Minneapolis has been through a lot these last few years with the covid pandemic and social unrest, but a piece of its history has stood the test of time and its operator ...

Homeowners at the 95-year-old Commodore Condominiums voted Wednesday to replace the 11-story building’s vintage manual passenger elevator – thought to be the only one of its kind left in Kentucky − ...

One of Chicago's last manual elevator operators understands the novelty of his 'office' in the famous Fine Arts Building. "It has its ups and downs," Brian joked about the job. He said he wound up ...