The Bellefield Boiler Plant Louis M
THE BELLEFIELD BOILER PLANT LOUIS M. SUSANY, Manager A Review of the Origin, Expansion, and Modernization of the Plant and the Growth of the Steam Load it Serves The Bellefield Boiler Plant is a Long-Time Member of NDHA. Origin and Early History: 1904-1932 The original Carnegie Library and Music Hall, built in The boiler planr was completed in 1907, and occupies 1893-1895, was heated by a small boiler plant located with a site on the western side of Junction Hollow. It is of steel in the original building. In 1900, a large sum of money frame construction, with brick exterior walls. The original was donated by Mr. Andrew Carnegie for the purpose of structure, which remained unchanged until the current ex greatly expanding the facilities of the Carnegie Library pansion in 1965-66, is approximately 150 ft long by 65 ft Building. The new consrruction enlarged the Library, added wide, with a height of 70 ft from grade ro eave. the foyer t0 the Music Hall, and expanded the facilities tO A siding from the adjacent Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, include the Museum, Art Galleries, and the large Hall of which runs through the Hollow, serves the boiler plant. Architecture and Sculpture. (Fig. 1). Coal is delivered via a siding inro the south end of the This huge educational and cultural complex of libraries, building, where railroad car platform scales weigh in the music hall, museum, and art gaUeries occupies land donated coal, which is dumped direct from rhe cars into a receiving by the Ciry of Pirrsburgh, and extends for 440 ft along hopper.
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