It provided steam heat to downtown Toledo and the Old West End.

It's an imposing building. I look forward to a time when the development of that part of Toldeo can regain some momentum.

 

Those old-school coal-fired municipal steam plants were not a pretty sight when they were operating. Emission control standards and management of coal dust were not what they are now.

It also generated electricity.

Here's the turbine room as of now.

This is a great building, but I've heard the apartment project is dead.