Heating Plant
Heating Plant Building at the Lorton Reformatory. Built in 1932-1933. The Heating Plant Building is nearly square, at 70 feet by 90 feet, but rises in a complex multiple-story massing arrangement that creates
an appearance resembling several tall buildings clustered together, or the clustered pavilions of a Beaux Arts style building on a centercity site. The east-facing elevation of the building (facing away from the Reformatory buildings) centers on a slender center section,
about 50 feet in height, that is taller and steps forward slightly from the two flanking masses, which are about 40 feet in height. The
remaining part of the building (about 2/3 of the building in plan) is enclosed in a form that is about 10 feet shorter in height. The roof of
the section of the building is flat, concealed by a parapet with metal coping. Each of the building’s elevations has very large (56 pane)
steel casement windows with (21 pane) steel fanlights, in classically-proportioned round arches which are otherwise unornamented. The
taller parts of the building have slender steel casement windows centered above the arches. The building is set in a lower grade area,
down an embankment from many of the nearby Reformatory buildings. ... A large silo-like structure with a tile cylinder on a raised platform, with integral wheels, ladders, and chutes is connected to the building on the southern edge. Now a part of the mixed-use community Liberty on the Reformatory site. Building R-30.
Contributing resource, D.C. Workhouse and Reformatory Historic District. National Register of Historic Places 06000052
Virginia DHR 029-947-0078
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Heating Plant
Heating Plant Building at the Lorton Reformatory. Built in 1932-1933. The Heating Plant Building is nearly square, at 70 feet by 90 feet, but rises in a complex multiple-story massing arrangement that creates
an appearance resembling several tall buildings clustered together, or the clustered pavilions of a Beaux Arts style building on a centercity site. The east-facing elevation of the building (facing away from the Reformatory buildings) centers on a slender center section,
about 50 feet in height, that is taller and steps forward slightly from the two flanking masses, which are about 40 feet in height. The
remaining part of the building (about 2/3 of the building in plan) is enclosed in a form that is about 10 feet shorter in height. The roof of
the section of the building is flat, concealed by a parapet with metal coping. Each of the building’s elevations has very large (56 pane)
steel casement windows with (21 pane) steel fanlights, in classically-proportioned round arches which are otherwise unornamented. The
taller parts of the building have slender steel casement windows centered above the arches. The building is set in a lower grade area,
down an embankment from many of the nearby Reformatory buildings. ... A large silo-like structure with a tile cylinder on a raised platform, with integral wheels, ladders, and chutes is connected to the building on the southern edge. Now a part of the mixed-use community Liberty on the Reformatory site. Building R-30.
Contributing resource, D.C. Workhouse and Reformatory Historic District. National Register of Historic Places 06000052
Virginia DHR 029-947-0078
DSC_0151