Halsam American Brick Build - Office Building

In the mid-1950s' Halsam offered interlocking brick building toys made from pressed wood. I'm assembling each of the models shown in the instruction booklet for their 60/1 and 60/2 building sets. I'm calling it the Halsam American Brick Build.

The eleventh build is an office building. Like some of the previous structures, this one required sections to span openings in the floor plan. In this case, the bricks were cantilevered in two directions. The first extended the second story walls across the gaps. 

Two additional rows are added to secure the span. Then bricks are extended out of the second story walls to support the gables. It worked pretty well. The overall structure was quite stable.

The roofs on the second stories use the same offset technique as the tower. The end result is a nice -- if somewhat non-descript office building of the early post-war era. 

Office building (front)

Office building (back)