{"id":17321,"date":"2016-03-04T11:00:56","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T16:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=17321"},"modified":"2016-03-02T20:20:11","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T01:20:11","slug":"public-gets-peek-at-oakes-garden-theatre-renos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/04\/public-gets-peek-at-oakes-garden-theatre-renos\/","title":{"rendered":"Public gets peek at Oakes Garden Theatre renos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/2016\/02\/28\/public-gets-peek-at-oakes-garden-theatre-renos\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The new Oakes Garden Theatre is going to look a lot like the old Oakes Garden Theatre.<\/p>\n<p>Restoration of the theatre&#8217;s distinctive pergola wall, dismantled because of safety concerns in 2012, will utilize the original stone pulled from a local quarry when complete, possibly by this summer. Only it will be anchored with a steel \u201cstructural spine\u201d to better withstand the area&#8217;s wet conditions, said lead architect Emilio Raimondo of Niagara Falls-based Raimondo &amp; Associates Architects Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking Saturday at an information session hosted by the Niagara Falls Municipal Heritage Committee, Raimondo said the rubble originally used to fill the wall&#8217;s support pillars in 1935 \u201cacted as a sponge\u201d over the decades.<\/p>\n<p>Pieces of the wall, requiring 113 skids and two transport trucks, are in storage waiting to rise again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully, it&#8217;ll be there for another hundred years,\u201d said Raimondo.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t even know that it was being renovated&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: The new Oakes Garden Theatre is going to look a lot like the old Oakes Garden Theatre. Restoration of the theatre&#8217;s distinctive pergola wall, dismantled because of safety concerns in 2012, will utilize the original stone pulled from a local quarry when complete, possibly by this summer. Only it will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29,2],"tags":[10608,10606,10609,1139,1999,7719,10607,6013,7720],"class_list":["post-17321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-developments","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-architects","tag-emilio-raimondo","tag-municipal-heritage-committee","tag-niagara-falls-review","tag-oakes-garden-theatre","tag-pergola","tag-raimondo-associates","tag-safety","tag-wall"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}