Update: March 27, 2002
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Here is a rebuilt portion of Cooper Hall's northwest wall. If you look carefully at the edge of the outer wall, you can see a couple of little holes. See below for details!	This photo of the new stairwell is taken from the second floor, looking down into the first floor. The walls of the new stairwell are made of hadite block.
This closeup of the above photo shows the holes where anchors were inserted to stabilize the new walls.	Here is a view from the inside of the new stairwell, taken from the first floor.
Workers clean the stone exterior of Cooper two times. Note the differences in color among the wall to the left (which has gone through the first cleaning), the bottom of the right wall (which has gone through both cleanings), and the rest of the right wall (not yet cleaned).	These are steel rebars sitting in hadite block. Since steel has great tensile strength, these rebars can take tension that would crack the stone and concrete. Workers pour grout around these rebars, and eventually you get a wall like in the first photo on this page!
Tension ties like this one are attached to both the wall and a floor joist to help support the floors in Cooper.	These cables help hold these exterior and interior walls together until grout can be injected between them.
This is what the north end of the third floor of Cooper looks like from a pigeon's-eye view in the rafters! Below you can see two of the three wood beams that are supporting the third floor.