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| Street View, Jul 2022 |
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| James Bailey posted This was shot through a dirty, scratched-up window in a fast moving train a couple days ago, but it's worthy of a share none the less. This is a defunct coal-burning power plant built in the 1920's on the south bank of the Mohawk River (AKA the Erie Canal) just east of Amsterdam, NY. "The architects were McKee, Kim and White (edit: should be "McKim, Mead & White"), the people who designed the original Pennsylvania Station and Madison Square Garden in New York City." To say "They don't build them like that anymore!" is an understatement. What a beautiful building! Utilitarian does NOT have to mean "cheap and ugly". |
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...precast products.
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| Carol Flickr, cropped Old Adirondack Power and Light Plant This is the old Adirondack Power and Light Plant. This abandoned steam electric plant is now used for storage by the Cranesville Block Co. There are trucks and cement blocks all around inside the fenced in yard close to the plant. This old parking lot right in the front is quite empty these days. This old steam electric plant is located on the south side of the Mohawk River. ( It is thought that Enlarged Erie Canal Lock 26, Phillips Lock, would have been located opposite the western corner of this steam electric plant, near the railroad tracks making it about 1/4 mile east of Lock 27. There is, however, no sign of it today. It was either demolished or buried. Old Lock 26 would have been a double chamber lock, lengthened at the foot on the berme side with an 8.010 lift west. )This shot was taken from 5S near Pattersonville. It is also near Lock 10 of the Erie Barge Canal. |
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| nysarchivetrust "Medusa white cement was an innovation of the Sandusky Portland Cement Company of Ohio patented in 1903 for its pure white color and resistance to staining." |
The backside obviously did not use the special concrete mix, and it makes you appreciate the effectiveness of that mix.
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| Street View, Aug 2021 |
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| ArtsAndCluture, miSci- Museum of Innovation & Science 1927 |
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| The Mohawk Valley Through the Lens posted Former Adirondack Power & Light 1920s former coal-burning power plant built on the Mohawk River/Barge Canal in the town of Florida, Rt.5s, just east of Amsterdam, NY. It was purchased by Cranesville Block Company in 1964 and is currently used for manufacturing and storage of stone products. Captured: April 12, 2018 |
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| Rob Martinez commented on the above post Travel this road a lot. Love the building. And have taken many pics of it. Would like to go inside someday 🙂 |
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