The Richard L. Hearn Generating Station
The Richard L. Hearn Generating Station (named after Richard Lankaster Hearn) is a decommissioned electrical generating station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The plant was originally fired by coal, but later converted to burn natural gas. The plant has been described as "Pharaonic in scale",[1] and encompasses 650 thousand cubic metres of space[1]—large enough to fit 12 Parthenons inside.[2]
The plant is located at 440 Unwin Avenue in Toronto's Port Lands area, directly south of the foot of Carlaw Avenue, across the shipping channel and next to the recently opened Portlands Energy Centre. The Richard L. Hearn Generating Station, together with the nearby Ashbridges Bay Wastewater Treatment Plant sewage sludge incinerator stack and the Commissioners Street waste incinerator stack, stand as towering landmarks of a bygone industrial era in the Portlands area of Toronto (all three facilities are no longer in operation, but their towering smokestacks still stand). The property has been leased to Studios of America since 2002.[3]
Decommissioned in 1983
The smoke stack is 705ft tall.
SAVE THE HEARN, The Richard L. Hearn Generating Station by
Linda Edwards, on Flickr
Early morning GO trains by
Randy Hoffmann, on Flickr
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Jonathan Castellino, on Flickr
Hearn by
Andrew Badgley, on Flickr
Hearn Generating Station-21 by
Electric Aura, on Flickr
'One Thousand Speculations' .... 2016 Luminato Festival / The Hearn .... Toronto, Ontario by
Greg's Southern Ontario (catching Up Slowly), on Flickr
Light and Metal by
Ben Roffelsen Photography, on Flickr
Waiting for the Apocalypse by
JamesAnok || ThetaState, on Flickr
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