The elevator is located in a church built in 1926. Architect was Alfred Finn who also designed the San Jacinto Monument in southeast Houston. The elevator was retrofitted sometime in the early 50's. No historical values for the controls. The hydraulics were replaced at some point (I believe in the early 2000's but not certain). The story is we are a small congregation who has limited funds. We are currently unable to use our auditorium because we have a few wheelchair bound members who require the elevator to access the auditorium.

The elevator was functioning until approximately 2 years ago. We had a service contract but due to tight budget, had to discontinue their service.

When the elevator stopped working, we called them out and after 4 hours and $1000, said they didn't think they could sort out the problem so we put a halt on the effort. We are now in a position that with some growth in the congregation, we need to move back into the auditorium.

Current issue is that when a call button is pushed, several of the relays latch but no executive action is taken ie, with the car on the first floor and the first floor call is pushed, the doors do no open. I can activate the door by manually closing the dc contact which cycles through the door open, door close sequence and the relays unlatch.. Also, if the car is on the 2nd floor and the first floor call is pushed, again, several relays latch but no executive action taken.