PF Pattison Family

Reported 1913 / Campus heat, light, power

New York University Heights Power Plant

The NYU plant is a campus heart. Its work was not to be admired from the street but to let a hilltop university live as one connected body.

University Heights, Bronx

What this place asked the work to do.

A power plant supplying heat, light, and power across multiple campus buildings shows the firm's work at network scale. It belongs beside Frank's systems thinking, not as a minor utility footnote.

People in the room

Pattison Brothers, McKim, Mead & White, New York University

The ledger summary preserves the key scope: heat, light, and power to multiple buildings.

What it can carry

This can carry a verified campus-scale systems role.

What remains careful

It does not yet carry a full reading-room facsimile or exact plant-room image.