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Industrial Art Moderne .... Mothballed Hearn Generating Station / Power Plant .... Toronto, Ontario

Built 1951 Architects - Charles A Stone & Edwin S Webster .... in Industrial Art Moderne style .... Abandoned electrical generating station in Toronto, originally a coal burning / natural gas power plant. Decommissioned / closed in 1983, due to concerns about air pollution in Toronto. Richard Lankaster Hearn (18 May 1890 – 24 May 1987) was one of the key players in the establishment of Ontario’s electrical energy system. The Hearn Generating Station, located on the Toronto waterfront is named after him ....

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Uploaded on June 22, 2016
Taken on September 29, 2014