ALMOST LOST HISTORY
D.P. Door Preserves Claremont Depot's History
The Santa Fe Station at the Claremont Depot was part of the beginning of Claremont California. The city was founded in 1887 in part by the Santa Fe Railroad.
In 1927 the Station was rebuilt to a spectacular Spanish Colonial Revival architecture. One of the most distinctive architectural features of the station is the majestic doors and transom that predominate the height of the building. As the brass plaque outside the doors states: the Doors were commissioned by Santa Fe Railroads with a designed to show their cross and circle logo. For the last several years these doors were in such disrepair they were held shut by a shelf bracket
The front doors of the Claremont Depot will soon be the main staging area of the AMGEN world class bike race scheduled for May 15th through the 22nd. With over 25,000 spectators expected this month to come to Claremont for the world class bike race it would have been embarrassing if the doors at the AMGEN staging area did not work.
Experts were convinced the doors could not be repaired; the city asked D.P. Door to replace the historic doors but D.P. Door's owner David Patsch could not bring himself to throwaway these handmade pieces of history. David went to the drawing board and decided on a hardware system that would utilize the stronger parts of the doors and eliminate the old hardware that caused the damage to the doors.
After D.P Door donated 30 man-hours of labor the doors now work better then ever. "I've never seen doors open and close so easily, we want you (D.P. Door) to do the other doors too." said Ryan the city employee in charge of the project .
"Even though the doors are custom and are twice as thick as regular doors we could have made replicas, but it is more important that decades from now tour guides can say these are the original Santa Fe doors from 1927. After all how many doors have a brass plaque dedicated to them." said David Patsch.
You can see pictures of the doors and a video of the process at www.dpdoor.com/claremont-depot.html

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