Happy Friday once again. Today photo is dated August 7, 1935, and the caption on the back reads:
Designed by Albert Kahn and built in 1922, the building is a great example of his industrial works. The powerhouse, a staple of almost every large factory, is a bit of a rarity. Often the powerhouses were among the first buildings to go.
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My father was one of the chief engineers at that plant from the 40's through his retirement in the early 80s. The augers pull water from the Detroit river, where is goes through several stages of purification prior to going in for steam generation.
Bernard Drouillard, the white building to east of the power plant is gone. That site is the parking lot for the apartment buildings.
I spent some time at the facility recently, and couple corrections are to be made here. The boilers in the old power house are all decommissioned however there is still one steam turbine that functions along with various pumps and compressors in the basement. The steam turbine gets its steam from the new co-gen site, and generates electricity only for the engine plant at certain times of the day. As for the two screw pumps they actually pump used service and drainage water to the lagoon which more or less just a settling pond for the water to cool down before in drains back to the river.