The things with ladders and catwalks are big fire tube steam boilers. The stuff that looks like a roller coaster is wire trays for carrying wires. The things that you thought were transformers were resistor boxes for starting early electric motors. The Westinghouse switchgear was the main power entrance equipment. The insulators behind it held bare copper bus bars that fed power that was 480 volts 3 wire 3 phase to run the motors etc, and there is a transformer that lowers the voltage to 120 volts for the very vintage fluorescent lights and any standard wall receptacles. It was improperly labeled “110 volts”, but was 120. Way cool old building! 😊
With a building in the process of being demolished, you think they would have better security. When you were up on the roof, it didn't look that bad, same with the exterior.
The black marble fireplace is gorgeous and I like the parquet flooring. It's interesting how each fireplace is of a different style. In its day, it must have been a lovely home.
Great video. There's one like that in West Hartford that you can go inside, for classes, gift shop etc. They also have a labyrinth you can walk. And as a super bonus from station 6 of the cross, if you follow thr little path in the woods and go thru the broken section of fence you wind up on The Stack (old abandoned highway that was built in 1971 but never used). Its so cool, you can see a lot if graffiti, cars from I-84, Rte 9 etc.
People knock down perfectly good buildings just to build something else all the time. 'tho it does look like there was some water damage in there, but that could've been after they started demolishion.
The last part of your video gave me the creeps. I don't like basements - spiders, centipedes, mold, mildew, and lord knows what ! Otherwise, it was an interesting building. I loved the natural woodwork.
