A roughly oval, rounded-irregular **hole punched through the original 1932 exterior face of the plant** as it stands today inside the second-floor expansion room above the office at the Hoffmann-Hayman factory, photographed on 5 January 2025 — the wall in question being the **same exterior masonry face documented in the [adjacent ceiling-junction frame](/assets/images/gallery/factory-upstairs-ceiling-febrero-date.jpg)** with the 'FEBRERO 11 – 53' pencilled joist, now reading as an interior wall because the post-1932 second-floor expansion was built over and beside it; the camera-facing surface is a smooth grey **stucco / cement-render interior finish** with hairline shrinkage cracks tracing through the field and a faint **red crayon / lumber-keel scribble** in the upper right (matching in material and hand the same red crayon marks already documented on the [east wall of this room beside the 1952–54 'Marzo' pencil dates](/assets/images/gallery/factory-upstairs-east-wall-marzo-dates.jpg)); the broken edges of the hole expose the wall in cross-section, revealing what reads as a textbook **early-1930s fire-resistant industrial wall buildup** — a course of warm orange-clay **fired brick veneer** visible at the upper margin of the cut, behind it a stack of three to four characteristic curved/lobed cell profiles consistent with the broken interior webs of **hollow structural clay tile** (terra-cotta hollow tile blocks) used as backup masonry behind the brick veneer, and the smooth grey stucco render skinning the interior face — the kind of brick-veneer-over-hollow-tile composition consistent with the *San Antonio Sunday Light*'s [July 1932 description of the new plant as 'fireproof reinforced-concrete' construction](/sunday-light-july-1932-factory-article-reprint/) (concrete frame plus fireproof masonry infill); through the hole the room beyond is visible — a clear gridded blue-and-silver field reading as one of the building's industrial windows with security mesh / wire-grid in front of it, daylight coming through, the same kind of caged-window run already documented on the [west flank from the rail siding at dusk in February 2019](/assets/images/gallery/factory-south-end-from-tracks-2019.jpg)
A roughly oval, rounded-irregular **hole punched through the original 1932 exterior face of the plant** as it stands today inside the second-floor expansion room above the office at the Hoffmann-Hayman factory, photographed on 5 January 2025 — the wall in question being the **same exterior masonry face documented in the [adjacent ceiling-junction frame](/assets/images/gallery/factory-upstairs-ceiling-febrero-date.jpg)** with the 'FEBRERO 11 – 53' pencilled joist, now reading as an interior wall because the post-1932 second-floor expansion was built over and beside it; the camera-facing surface is a smooth grey **stucco / cement-render interior finish** with hairline shrinkage cracks tracing through the field and a faint **red crayon / lumber-keel scribble** in the upper right (matching in material and hand the same red crayon marks already documented on the [east wall of this room beside the 1952–54 'Marzo' pencil dates](/assets/images/gallery/factory-upstairs-east-wall-marzo-dates.jpg)); the broken edges of the hole expose the wall in cross-section, revealing what reads as a textbook **early-1930s fire-resistant industrial wall buildup** — a course of warm orange-clay **fired brick veneer** visible at the upper margin of the cut, behind it a stack of three to four characteristic curved/lobed cell profiles consistent with the broken interior webs of **hollow structural clay tile** (terra-cotta hollow tile blocks) used as backup masonry behind the brick veneer, and the smooth grey stucco render skinning the interior face — the kind of brick-veneer-over-hollow-tile composition consistent with the *San Antonio Sunday Light*'s [July 1932 description of the new plant as 'fireproof reinforced-concrete' construction](/sunday-light-july-1932-factory-article-reprint/) (concrete frame plus fireproof masonry infill); through the hole the room beyond is visible — a clear gridded blue-and-silver field reading as one of the building's industrial windows with security mesh / wire-grid in front of it, daylight coming through, the same kind of caged-window run already documented on the [west flank from the rail siding at dusk in February 2019](/assets/images/gallery/factory-south-end-from-tracks-2019.jpg)
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Factory