File:Chester Waterside Station of the Philadelphia Electric Company.jpg

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TELEPHOTO VIEW OF CHESTER STATION COMPLEX FROM THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE COMMODORE BARRY BRIDGE THAT SPANS THE DELAWARE RIVER - Delaware County Electric Company, Chester Station, Delaware River at South end of Ward Street, Chester, Delaware County, PA   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL))
Photographer
Jack Boucher  (1931–2012)  wikidata:Q6111338
 
Alternative names
Jack E. Boucher; Jack Edward Boucher
Description American photographer and architectural photographer
HABS, HAER and HALS photographer, National Park Service
Date of birth/death 4 September 1931 Edit this at Wikidata 2 September 2012 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Buffalo Edit this at Wikidata Holy Cross Hospital Edit this at Wikidata
Work period from 1949 until 2009
Work location
Washington, D.C.; Philadelphia; Atlantic City Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q6111338
Title
TELEPHOTO VIEW OF CHESTER STATION COMPLEX FROM THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE COMMODORE BARRY BRIDGE THAT SPANS THE DELAWARE RIVER - Delaware County Electric Company, Chester Station, Delaware River at South end of Ward Street, Chester, Delaware County, PA
Description
Windrim, John; Eglin, William C, L; Delaware County Electric Company; Philadelphia Electric Company; PECO Energy Company; Chester Construction and Contracting Company; Babcock and Wilcox Company; General Electric Company; United Gas Improvement Company; Westinghouse Electric Company; Keystone Construction Company; Cope, Joshua Morris; Turner Concrete Steel Company; Lavoie, Catherine C, project manager; Arzola, Robert R, project manager; Wunsch, Aaron V, project manager; Wunsch, Aaron V, historian; Sneddon, Matthew T, historian; Truman, Catherine, delineator; Baldioli, Andrea, delineator; Hernandez, Naomi, delineator; Lengyel, Michael J, delineator; Markovich, Matthew G, delineator; Boucher, Jack E, photographer
Depicted place Pennsylvania; Delaware County; Chester
Date Documentation compiled after 1968
Dimensions 5 x 7 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HAER PA,23-CHES,2-2
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: It is a monument to the production and marketing of electricity in early 20th-century America. Wartime demand for light and power led Philadelphia Electric to commission the plant for the company's Chester, Pennsylvania subsidiary in 1916. Conceived by architect John T. Windrim and engineer William C.L. Eglin, the design featured recent advances in generating technology and industrial construction...
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N453
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N484
  • Survey number: HAER PA-505
  • Building/structure dates: 1916- 1919 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1924 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1939-1941 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/pa3680.photos.361643p
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