Steam Heating Plants
Prior to the 1914 construction of the University of Michigan Central Power Plant, the university campus was heated by two separate steam heating plants, both situated right on the diag. Both completed in 1879, one was situated just east of University Hall and the other as an addition on the back Chemical Laboratory.
The first plant provided heat for the west and north sections of the campus, namely University Hall, the Law Building, the Museum, the dental building, and the Homeopathic Hospital. The second plant heated the eastern buildings on campus, at that point only the Chemical Laboratory and Medical Building.
Steam Heating Plant 1
Plant 1 in red, Plant 2 in blue
Steam Heating Plant 2
Sources
-“Chemistry Lab, Pharmacology Wing.” Bentley Image Bank, Bentley Historical Library. Accessed April 28, 2017. http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhl/x-bl004185/bl004185.
-Michigan, University of. The University of Michigan, an Encyclopedic Survey … Wilfred B. Shaw, Editor., 2000. http://name.umdl.umich.edu/AAS3302.0004.001.
-Mortenson, Myron. “Chronological Development of the University of Michigan Campus, Ann Arbor, Michigan.” Mort’s Labor of Love. [Ann Arbor, Mich.: The Dept., 1971. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/.
-“University of Michigan Power Plant (Print Made from Glass Negative).” Bentley Image Bank, Bentley Historical Library. Accessed April 28, 2017. http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhl/x-hs1567/hs1567.