Central Heating Plant (2nd)

Date

1949-present
Addition, 1971-present

Location

175 West Lorain Street

Architects/Collaborators

Hadlock-Krill Company (contractor)
William C. Kammerer, Cleveland (consulting engineer)
Chris C. Oliver (operating engineer)
Addition: Byers, Urban, Klug & Pittinger (consulting engineers)

Style

Industrial

History

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 in 1971. In 2013-14, Oberlin replaced the coal-fired boilers and replaced them with new natural gas-fired ones. From then on out, Oberlin will be a coal-free institution in its effort to reach carbon neutrality .

Sources

Oberlin College Archives, Office of the Secretary Records.

Cynthia Nickoloff, "The End of Coal," The Source, Oberlin College, October 1, 2013, accessed May 26, 2015.