{"id":404084,"date":"2024-01-26T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=404084"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"DPW-inspectors-find-former-wax-museum-building-unsafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/DPW-inspectors-find-former-wax-museum-building-unsafe\/","title":{"rendered":"DPW inspectors find former wax museum building unsafe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Public Works\u2019 Building Safety Code Division has found the former Wax Museum of Saipan building in western Garapan to be an unsafe structure.<\/p>\n<p>Yvonne B. Tenorio, who is the acting DPW Building Safety official, informed the owner of the former Max Museum Wednesday about the results of their inspection of the building.<\/p>\n<p>DPW Secretary Ray N. Yumul agreed with Tenorio\u2019s letter, which was addressed to So Boo Kim, president of Kanishima Group of Company.<\/p>\n<p>Tenorio said the Building Safety Code inspectors performed a site inspection of the building on Dec. 19, 2023, and saw that the metal sections that hold the exterior walls in place are in an advanced stage of corrosion.<\/p>\n<p>Tenorio said the metal brackets are unable to continue maintaining the stability to the walls.<\/p>\n<p>She also noted the definition of an unsafe structure pursuant to the NMI Administrative Code.<\/p>\n<p>The Wax Museum of Saipan, a two-floor museum located on Ginger Street, opened in November 2006. It\u2019s unclear when the museum closed business.<\/p>\n<p>During its opening, the museum consisted of over 15 display areas.<\/p>\n<p>The first room contains a diorama of a Taga hut, a collection of historical photographs, and two life-size waxworks of Halloween figures: Frankenstein and the Werewolf.<\/p>\n<p>The second floor had a room showing all the past and present governors and lieutenant governors of the CNMI. It also had an exhibit room that served as a gallery of paintings.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/2234cf9e75f4ac2e59da1bffe957ca21.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ray N. Yumul<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Public Works\u2019 Building Safety Code Division has found the former Wax Museum&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}