Posted by Baldran
I found a great selection of Historic American Engineering Record shots on the Library of Congress site, and damn you're not wrong. It thought the architecture at this place was amazing but it looks downright plain compared to Chester. Any idea what they did with the turbine hall in renovating it?
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The turbine hall was still under construction when I last saw it. Don't believe they preserved the open space though; offices.
They did preserve artifacts like small coal cars, valves, those huge incredibly double brass doors and much of the original hallways/doors.
In the main lobby even has rounded tiles in the corners where walls and/or floors meet. Lots of huge windows.
The controls room is fully intact, all the meters, those crazy red/black ball indicators, switches and wiring which art work in it's self.
It's an extreme example of industrial Art Deco.
Very ornate, spare no expense and one of a kind.
A huge, gorgeous building well worth a look at.