Paint layers on bannister

Mail chute

Tree detail shutters

Vintage fold down stove

Details from our 1931 brick home- we are working on a few low or no-cost renovations in the winter months.

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A collage showing: 1. A vintage ad for Cutler Mail Chutes featuring a uniformed postal worker. 2. The 10th-floor mail chute labeled “Mitchell-Cutler Mail Chute” with “Canada Mail” and “The Robert Mitchell Co. Limited Montreal.” 3. A brass lobby mailbox with “LETTERS,” the Canadian coat of arms, “Canada Mail,” and “Mitchell-Cutler Mail Chute” engraved on it.

✉️ Did you know this 1920s mailbox in the Jackman Humanities Building was once part of a working mail chute system? The system is no longer in service, but it still delivers something special 😉

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