Santa Fe National Cemetery

Archinia was contracted in Spring 2012 to do architectural history review and demolition observation to verify the accuracy of the original historic drawings / documents on a 1946 concrete wall and a 1960's era drainage feature along two historic structures at the the Santa Fe National Cemetery. Here is the final report and the HCPIs forms for the wall and drainage strutcures.

I'm posting the story here of the the little wall that didn't want to go away, because it is awesome.

Obstinate wall, Part 1: 19" conc wall, vertical rebar only @ the pilasters, 3 pcs. horiz. rebar @ cap & footing...

Note cool angled drainage feature. Constructed of riverrocks in a 1" mortar bed over earth.

Obstinate wall, Part 2: Jackhammers and bobcat try to take it down. The wall laughs at us.

All the crew can get broken off is the cap and the end. And that takes a LOT of work.

Obstinate wall, Part 3: After 3 days of this, the crew stops playing games and brings in BERTHA...

Obstinate wall, Part 4: BERTHA is able to take entire sections of the wall out in large chunks...

Obstinate wall, Part 5: finally a good true section: look are deceptive: this is NO ordinary wall. 4000-5000 psi breaks...

Obstinate wall, Part 6: Is it grave? No (thank god) It's a storm drain...

Obstinate wall, Part 7: Hank's an expert at this...

Obstinate wall, Part 8: That's why it's SO clean when he gets the wall out. Look at the grass: Perfect Demo...