. The Street railway journal . toprepare plans for the power house structure, and in additionto this, the matter of constructing a new pier at the foot ofWest Fifty-Eighth Street was taken up along with the con-struction of underground condensing water conduits with anunderground coal-conveying passage, which resulted in con-summating a lease with the Department of Docks and Ferriesfor the construction of a pier 700 ft. long and 60 ft. wide, atthe foot of West Fifty-Eighth Street. The work of preparing the detail plans of the power housestructure was, in the main, completed early in 1902, whic
. The Street railway journal . toprepare plans for the power house structure, and in additionto this, the matter of constructing a new pier at the foot ofWest Fifty-Eighth Street was taken up along with the con-struction of underground condensing water conduits with anunderground coal-conveying passage, which resulted in con-summating a lease with the Department of Docks and Ferriesfor the construction of a pier 700 ft. long and 60 ft. wide, atthe foot of West Fifty-Eighth Street. The work of preparing the detail plans of the power housestructure was, in the main, completed early in 1902, which re-sulted in the present plan, which may be briefly described asfollows: The structure is divided into two main parts, anoperating room and a boiler house, with a partition wall be-tween the two sections. The face of the structure on EleventhAvenue is 200 ft. wide, of which width the boiler house occu-pies 83 ft. and the operating room 117 ft. The operating roomoccupies the Fifty-Ninth Street, or northerly side of the struc-. EXTERIOR VIEW OF THE POWER PLANT DURING CONSTRUCTION, SHOWING STEEL WORK ture, while the boiler house is located on the Fifty-EighthStreet, or southerly side. The designers were enabled to em-ploy a contour of roof and wall section for the northerly sidethat was identical with the roof and wall contour of the south-erly side, so that the building, when viewed from either end,presents a symmetrical appearance, with both sides of thebuilding alike in form and design. The operating room sectionis practically symmetrical with respect to its center; it consistsof a central area, with a truss roof over same, and galleriesalong both sides. The galleries along the northerly side areprimarily for the electrical apparatus, while those along thesoutherly side are given up chiefly to the steam pipe equip-ment. The boiler room section is also practically symmetricalwith respect to its center. A sectional scheme of the power house arrangement was de-
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