Part of PICRYL.com. Not developed or endorsed by the Library of Congress

Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Vehicle Operations Heated Parking, Idaho Avenue, Plattsburgh, Clinton County, NY

Similar

Transformer manufacture. Flowing at the rate of ninety feet per minute, the flattened copper wire is wrapped with insulating tape by these machines. The workers pictured here stand by ready to change spools. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Scene in the packing plant at Fort Pierce, Florida

W. A. Young & Sons Foundry & Machine Shop, On Water Street along Monongahela River, Rices Landing, Greene County, PA

Transformer manufacture. Flowing at the rate of ninety feet per minute, the flattened copper wire is wrapped with insulating tape by these machines. The workers pictured here stand by ready to change spools. Westinghouse, Sharon, Pennsylvania

Machine that thinks. Turning and boring a quadrant bracket on one of the batteries of machines at a large Army arsenal working full speed for the war program

Femco Farm, Cow Barn, Kent, Wilkin County, MN

Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Vehicle Operations Heated Parking, Idaho Avenue, Plattsburgh, Clinton County, NY

description

Summary

Significance: The building was a requirement for Air Force installations situated in cold climates. The building provided heated parking facilities for certain assigned vehicles needing to be maintained in "ready to operate" status, according to the base mission. Today, the building is used as manufacturing facility for the fabrication of train doors.
Survey number: HAER NY-326-BU

date_range

Date

1969 - 1980

person

Contributors

Historic American Engineering Record, creator

place

Location

Plattsburgh (N.Y.), 44.66191, -73.45682

Google Map of 44.6619113, -73.4568206

create

Source

Library of Congress

link

Link

http://www.loc.gov/

copyright

Copyright info

No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html