File:VIEW LOOKING WEST, -1 BOILER - Georgetown Steam Plant, South Warsaw Street, King County Airport, Seattle, King County, WA HAER WASH,17-SEAT,2-36.tif

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VIEW LOOKING WEST, -1 BOILER - Georgetown Steam Plant, South Warsaw Street, King County Airport, Seattle, King County, WA
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VIEW LOOKING WEST, -1 BOILER - Georgetown Steam Plant, South Warsaw Street, King County Airport, Seattle, King County, WA
Description
Stone and Webster Construction Company; Gilbreath, Frank B; Curtis, Charles G; Emmet, William Le, Roy; Croasdill, C. W., Pump House Designer; Seattle City Light, Owner; Jackson, Donald C, transmitter; Murphy, Kevin, transmitter; Comp, T Allen, historian; Lenty, Flo, historian; Lowe, Jet, photographer; Lubar, Steve, historian
Depicted place Washington; King County; Seattle
Date Documentation compiled after 1968
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HAER WASH,17-SEAT,2-36
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  • STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr
  • Significance: The Georgetown Steam Plant is an early reinforced concrete structure housing America's last operable examples of the "first generation" of large scale, vertical steam turbine electric generators. It is also significant as an early example of "fast track" construction advocated by Frank B. Gilbreath. The Georgetown Steam Plant is a steam-driven electrical generating station. Designed by Stone and Webster Engineering Corp., the plant was built by the Seattle Electric Company in 1906. The structure contains sixteen, 500 horsepower stirling boilers which supply steam to two vertical turbines. The smaller 1906 unit generates 3000 kilowatts and a larger 1907 unit generates 8000 kilowatts. In 1917 Seattle Electric installed a 10000 kilowatt horizontal turbine generator unit manufactured by the General Electric Company. The Georgetown Steam Plant was used primarily as a standby and peaking facility. It provided alternating current for general use and direct current for the Seattle streetcar system. It is the last operative example of vertical curtis turbines in the United States.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1440
  • Survey number: HAER WA-1
  • Building/structure dates: 1906-1908 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1917 Subsequent Work
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This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 78002755.
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/wa0169.photos.168100p
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English: The height of the windows suggests this has to be the turbine hall, but these are almost certainly correctly identified as boilers; location unclear, and no obvious intersection with any of the other images.

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