http://www.thehydraulics.com/landmark/the-smokestack/ Perfect Building for Better Life Sat, 24 Jul 2010 02:06:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.thehydraulics.com/landmark/the-smokestack/comment-page-1/#comment-421 Robert Preskop Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:16:17 +0000 http://www.thehydraulics.com/?p=41#comment-421 It would be great if the old Larkin powerhouse with its distinctive red brick smokestack could be successfully renovated and reused rather than remaining abandoned and unwanted like it is right now. It would be great if the old Larkin powerhouse with its distinctive red brick smokestack could be successfully renovated and reused rather than remaining abandoned and unwanted like it is right now.

]]> http://www.thehydraulics.com/landmark/the-smokestack/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Scott Glasgow/ Black Rock Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:04:46 +0000 http://www.thehydraulics.com/?p=41#comment-4 Great story, I was the engineer at the old St. Marys hospital in Niagara Falls. Our 1912 building had a very similar smokestack and boiler house. Though converted to gas the remains of the coal silo, stokers, and ash pits was still in place. Few of these old time boiler houses are left and new HVAC systems just don't inspire the same awe or respect. Each summer hundreds of bats would take up residence in our chimmney and then head south in the fall just around the time we would first fire the boilers. The building (and chimmney)still stand, vacant and abandoned at the corner of 6th and Ferry St. Great story, I was the engineer at the old St. Marys hospital in Niagara Falls. Our 1912 building had a very similar smokestack and boiler house. Though converted to gas the remains of the coal silo, stokers, and ash pits was still in place. Few of these old time boiler houses are left and new HVAC systems just don’t inspire the same awe or respect.
Each summer hundreds of bats would take up residence in our chimmney and then head south in the fall just around the time we would first fire the boilers.
The building (and chimmney)still stand, vacant and abandoned at the corner of 6th and Ferry St.

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