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The power plant from Ottawa Street, showing its stepped roofs and the changing colour of its walls. Image from the National Park Service's page.
When it was built in 1938, the Ottawa Street Power Plant in downtown Lansing, Michigan, was a state-of-the-art facility, praised for its modern, innovative technology and for its architecture.
Engineering and design together
- Hidden smokestacks. The building is 176 feet tall, high enough for short smokestacks to sit behind its parapet walls, out of sight.
- Cleaner exhaust. Exhaust from the stacks was pre-cleaned — notable for a plant a few blocks from the State Capitol.
An excellent example of Art Deco, the plant joined engineering and architecture to house a cleaner way of generating power in a building suited to its setting. Its prominent features include:
- a broad base and stepped roofs;
- tall metal windows that stress the building's vertical mass;
- exterior colours meant to symbolise coal combustion: above a black granite base, the brick is purple and grey below the water table, then shifts gradually from red to yellow towards the top.
Top: inside the former turbine room, looking towards the new addition. Bottom: an evening view of the historic building lit from within, behind the addition. Image from the National Park Service's page.
A new use
Power generation stopped in 1992. In 2007 the City of Lansing sold the plant for redevelopment as the corporate headquarters of the Accident Fund Insurance Company.
The $182 million rehabilitation included extensive repairs to the exterior masonry, replacement of the badly deteriorated windows, and a 105,000-square-foot addition. The former power plant is again a prominent downtown landmark, and the project earned LEED Gold certification for its environmentally friendly design.
Sources
- National Park Service, Technical Preservation Services, "Ottawa Street Power Plant, Lansing, Michigan." https://www.nps.gov/articles/ottawa-street-power-plant-mi.htm
- Rewritten in hubnx's own words.
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