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 **[[P026|Project 026]]** ◄| **[[fbglist-chrono|Project List]]** |► **[[P028|Project 028]]**  **[[P026|Project 026]]** ◄| **[[fbglist-chrono|Project List]]** |► **[[P028|Project 028]]** 
-==== FBG Project 027 ==== +<color goldenrod> • //Source: Yost// </color> 
-====== Hydropower Dam on the Saranac River ======+==== FBG Project D-027 ==== 
 +<color goldenrod> • //Source: Yost// </color>\\ <color goldenrod> • //Source: FBG-Sweet's// </color> 
 +====== Building for D.A. Sargent/Normal School of Physical Education ======
  
-  * Cadyville, NY +  * Cambridge, MA 
-  * 1904-05 +  * 1904\\ Noted as reaching completion late July 1904 
-  * Engineer: A.H. White +  * Demolished, date unknown.
-  * STANDING & IN ORIGINAL USE+
  
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-This project was a tall (55-foot) concrete dam for power generation, on the Saranac River. An ad from //Engineering News//, 28 Dec 1905, identifies the client as International Paper Co (along with two larger jobs for that company at Piercefield, NY and Berlin, NH), but as there is no mill in Cadyville and the purpose of the dam was hydropower, this seems to be a misattribution.+This project was a new building for what was then known as the Normal School of Physical Education, run by physical fitness advocate and Yale M.D. D.A. Sargent. Sargent held several posts in Cambridge, including director of the Hemenway Gymnasium at Harvard, assistant professor of physical training at Harvard, and director of this school, which in 1916 became the Sargent School for Physical Education. This was a “normal” school for training teachers, with a focus on Sargent's advanced notions of what physical education and training should be.
  
-An August 1904 ad in the //New York Sun// from FBG sought stone crushing services. Another ad [ER?], 7 Jan 1905, notes that the dam is 50 feet high and contains 10,000 cubic yards of concrete.+There is considerable confusion about this building, sometimes identified as the Hemenway Gymnasium itself. The confusion probably comes from Sargent's myriad posts and that a letter published in an FBG ad is headlined Hemenway/Harvard, a somewhat inappropriate mixing of Sargent's positions. In both the 1905 notice and the 1909 Sweet's ad, the job is identified as both a gymnasium (which the facility may well have included). The latter also uses the later name of the school, which must have been in partial or casual use in advance of the formal renaming some seven years later. Whoever composed the ad may have been misled by the institution on Sargent's letter, or perhaps the “confusion” was deliberate to take on the shine of the more prestigious school. 
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 +This project is positively identified by a 1905 FBG ad as a new building for the Normal School, at 29 or 30 Everett Street in Cambridge, built on the site of the former Jarvis Field House. Old maps show this building at the corner of Everett and Massachusetts Streets, where the Harvard Co-op now stands.
  
-This is noted as a repeat order from engineer A.H. White; prior jobs have not been identified. 
  
 ==== FBG Provenance ==== ==== FBG Provenance ====
-  * Ad in //System// +  * Yost p.144
-  * Ad in //Engineering News//+
   * [[notice1905 | FBG job listing notice, 7 Jan 1905 ]]   * [[notice1905 | FBG job listing notice, 7 Jan 1905 ]]
 +  * [[sweets1909 | Sweet's Catalogue of Building Construction advertisement, 1909]]
  
 ==== Status ==== ==== Status ====
-  * Standing and in original use (may not be producing hydropower although an apparently functional powerhouse, with power transmission cables, remains downstream). +  * Demolished.
-  * [[https://www.google.com/maps/@44.695124,-73.6275698,165a,35y,44.98t/data=!3m1!1e3 | Google Maps aerial view ]]+
  
 ==== Clips ==== ==== Clips ====
-  * Ad in //System//, Nov 1907: +  * FBG ad from //American Wool & Cotton Reporter//, 2 Sep 1905: 
-{{ ::fbg-cadyville-dam-system-nov-1907-ad.jpg?direct&500 |}}+{{ :fbg-sargent-school-awcr-2-sep-1905.jpg?direct&400 | Ad from AWCR, 2 Sep 1905 }}
  
-  *//Concrete System//, pp56 & 57. The latter is not a certain identification and may be another project. +  * 1903 map of Cambridge. The pink building at center is the Jarvis Field House, demolished to make room for Sargent's school: 
-{{ :fbg-cadyville-dam-under-construction-concrete-system-p56.jpg?direct&600 |}} +{{ :fbg-map-cambridge-1903-everett-jarvis-field.jpg?direct&400 | Map of Cambridge, 1903 }} 
-{{ :fbg-cadyville-dam-under-construction-maybe-concrete-system-p57.jpg?direct&600 |}}+ 
 +  * Letter from July 1907 //Engineering News// advertisement: 
 +{{ :fbg-sargent-school-letter-29-jul-1904.jpg?direct&400 | Letter from EN ad, July 1907 }}
  
 ==== Links ==== ==== Links ====
-  * https://www.industryabout.com/country-territories-3/1047-usa/hydro-energy/55010-cadyville-dam+  * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dudley_Allen_Sargent