Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2073 Power Statin

Dorchester Illustration of the Day no. 2073

The brick power station on Freeport Street with a tile roof and chimney and a wharf for coal delivery was erected in 1896 to produce power for the electric street railway system.  Now occupied by Yale Electric.

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