The P.E. Ivy Substation - 9070 Venice Blvd, Culver City (1907)
stucco over brick
(Actually in LA, leased by Culver City)
In the eighties I thought it was only a matter of time....
1982 - terry guy/flickr
Formerly the home of 300 homeless people, now a live performance theater (gentrification is always a trade-off).
(I wish they'd change out those streetlamps):
gsv
floyd b bariscale/flickr
Recreation of the fountain used to recirculate water to cool the machinery that converted AC to DC. It has a great utilitarian look.
floyd b bariscale/flickr
And yes, it got "memorialized" in Florida in this pastiche of the Ivy and Olive substations (but the streetlamps are better):
yesterland.com