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1. Money was awarded in 2015. In Dec. 2015, the Ohio Development Services Agency awarded the rehab of the DP&L site $687,500 in state historic tax credits.
2. The building is 110 years old. The Third Street Generating Station originally housed a coal fired steam generating complex. The original two-story building was built in 1907 with additions made in 1917 and 1948.
3. Plenty has changed over the years. The style of the original building exhibits a Classical Revival style detailed by brick pilasters that frame metal sash windows. The 1917 addition follows in the same vein of Classical Revival, but the 1948 addition added a four story section and exhibits more of a Moderne style.
In 1955, the original free standing smoke stacks were replaced with two interior placed stacks.
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4. The building once powered parts of the city. Originally constructed as an electrical power plant, this building supplied power for much of downtown's eastern industrial and warehouse districts.
By the 1920s the plant transitioned into a steam-generating station that provided steam to the central downtown area and the nearby industrial area.
5. Its usefulness ended in the 1980s. This plant remained in productive use until the 1980s, when it was replaced by a more modern facility at a different location.
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