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Description
Sketch of a temporary boiler house to supply worker housing, a school, fire station, and hospital at the site of the Passamaquoddy Bay Tidal Power Development in Eastport.
The project was planned to harness tides in Cobscook and Passamaquoddy bays to generate electricity. The Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works allocated $7 million in 1935 to begin construction. No further funds were allocated and the project was abandoned in August 1936.
About This Item
- Title: Boiler house, Passamaquoddy Tidal Power project, Eastport, 1935
- Creator: John Calvin Stevens-John Howard Stevens
- Creation Date: 1935
- Subject Date: 1935
- Location: Quoddy Village, Eastport, Washington County, ME
- Media: Ink on paper
- Local Code: Coll. 209, OS2-C3, JCS0617-2-1935
- Collection: Stevens Architects drawings and records collection
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Hydroelectric power plants--Maine
- Passamaquoddy Bay (N.B. and Me.)
- Architectural drawing
- Tidal power--Maine
- Boilers
- Heating
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