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Central Heating Plant (2nd)

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The second heating plant to be built on campus, located next to the Service Building on Lorain Street, stands 90 feet high at its top. Like the old plant it was designed to supply steam heat on campus using coal-fired boilers. An addition was built…

Central Heating Plant (1st)

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To supply steam heat for college buildings a central Heating Plant was built by the College during the year 1913. This plant included three Babcock and Wilcox water tube boilers of three hundred horsepower capacity each. Nineteen of the largest…