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| + | **[[P053|Project 053]]** ◄| **[[fbglist-chrono|Project List]]** |► **[[P055|Project 055]]** | ||
| + | ==== FBG Project N-054 ==== | ||
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| + | ====== Georgetown Steam Powerplant for Seattle Electric Co ====== | ||
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| + | * Georgetown, WA\\ (Seattle) | ||
| + | * Contract: Apr 1906\\ Construction Aug 1906–Jan 1907\\ Added construction through Jan 1908 | ||
| + | * $920,000 | ||
| + | * FBG fixed-sum fee: $20,000 | ||
| + | * Engineers: Stone & Webster | ||
| + | * National Register of Historic Places 78002755 | ||
| + | * National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark | ||
| + | * Standing and in operational condition | ||
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| + | This steam power generation plant is one of FBG's most remarkable projects. Although the company would build a number of powerplants, | ||
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| + | The project is even more interesting because it was originally designed as the brick-and-iron construction that FBG had used for nearly all projects to this point. As the initial work was being done, San Francisco was leveled by the double disaster of earthquake and raging fires. As a direct result — although difficulty getting the structural iron on time played a part — the engineer and FBG opted to switch construction to the new fireproof, “quakeproof” reinforced concrete. It would be the first such building in the western US, the first powerplant built entirely of RC and would feature, for a time, the longest reinforced-concrete beams in the world (just over 64 feet in span). | ||
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| + | It would also be FBG's only job in the western half of the US outside those in San Francisco. Frank Gilbreth had hoped that his and the work rebuilding SF would lead to a permanent relocation and vast amounts of work on the Pacific coast, with his eye as far north as Alaska. The difficulty of doing business in “foreign territory” with its own well-established builders, and the Panic of 1907, drove him back to the New York area and the eastern US. | ||
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| + | The plant still stands, a bit inaccessibly, | ||
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| + | While no book has been written specifically on this project, the combination of extended coverage in Frank Gilbreth' | ||
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| + | ==== FBG Provenance ==== | ||
| + | * Yost, p.72, p.77, p.136 (city references only) | ||
| + | * [[sweets1909 | Sweet' | ||
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| + | ==== Status ==== | ||
| + | * Standing and in largely original, operational condition. Last put in operation in the 1950s; last operational tests in the 1970s. | ||
| + | * Added to NRHP roster in 1978 in part because of Frank Gilbreth' | ||
| + | * Names a National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark by ASME in 1980 | ||
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| + | ==== Clips ==== | ||
| + | * The Georgetown plant shortly after completion, around 1908 (U.Wash archive photo): | ||
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| + | * The Georgetown plant ca. 1980. Note the roof ventilators that have replaced the smokestacks: | ||
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| + | ==== Books & Articles ==== | ||
| + | * //Concrete System//, Frank Gilbreth, 1909. Contains some 50 photos of the plant' | ||
| + | * https:// | ||
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| + | ==== Links ==== | ||
| + | * Noted as case study in //CHJ// paper. | ||
| + | * Considerable additional archive material available. | ||
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| + | * https:// | ||
| + | * [[ https:// | ||