#Smoke stack covers full
Foscue Map Library, Central University Libraries, Southern Methodist University the full photo and its details are accessible here.įor an unexpectedly enthusiastic essay about the design and cultural/aesthetic significance of the plant and its smokestacks, architecture critic David Dillon’s “Getting Up a Head of Steam: DP&L’s Power Station, Recalling an Urban Past, Is a Function of Triumph” ( Dallas Morning News, Sept. Long aerial photo is a detail of a photo cataloged as “Downtown Dallas - looking west,” from the Edwin J. William Langley photo of the cowboy on horseback is from the Library of Congress, used previously here.
Long, 1948 (detail)Ĭolor image is a screengrab from the short 1939 color film of Dallas which you can watch in full, here.Īd is from the 1928 Terrillian, the Terrill School yearbook. Via Squire Haskins Collection, University of Texas at ArlingtonĪerial photo by Lloyd M. Photo by William Langley, 1945 (with the twin stacks AND Pegasus) RIP, smokestacks!ġ930s, via DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University You could see those smokestacks from miles away, and, even though they’ve been gone for more than 15 years, I still expect to see them standing there. You’ll see them in any wide shot of the skyline taken between 1929 and the late 1990s, when the plant was demolished to make way for the American Airlines Center ( the design of which actually is reminiscent of the building it replaced). Those two smokestacks (which actually emitted steam rather than smoke) were almost as much a part of the iconic Dallas skyline as Pegasus. In 1928 DP&L announced that it needed a further addition:Īnother large chimney or smokestack, a new boiler room and other plant enlargements will be required in the North Dallas generation plant to house the new addition. The new giant smokestack can be seen in this photo, alongside the old and new parts of the generating plant:Īnd, another view, this one with the 8-acre “spray pond” in the foreground: The new addition was completed in 1924 (although improvements and construction were constantly ongoing). 14, 1923).Ĭonstruction on the new addition - including the first of the two new smokestacks - began in the summer of 1922.īy the summer of 1923 the first smokestack was partially built.
In 1922 work started on the most recent addition, which when completed will cost over $2,000,000, and will provide additional generating capacity of furnishing 20,000 kilowatts” (DMN, Oct. “More than twenty thousand ways” to use electricity, “your tireless mechanical slave”! (To see a larger image of the ad’s illustrated inset, click here.)Īccording to The Dallas Morning News, the Dallas Power & Light Company power plant had been in use at the location at “ at the foot of Griffin Street … since 1890, with additions in 1905, in 1912 and in 1914. I got to thinking about those two smokestacks that used to be such an important part of the Dallas skyline when I came across this rather forceful 1928 Dallas Power & Light Company ad: An unusual view of the smokestacks from 1939 - in color!
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