A skyscraper proof

A named building lets descendants point to a place and say: here, the office did work that the city could use.

St. Paul Building Electric Plant facsimile — Pattison Brothers project-role paragraph

Project notice / March 27, 1897

A skyscraper becomes a family witness

The notice says the entire electric plant, including telephones, was under Pattison Brothers supervision and plans. That word entire matters.

Where this page comes from Electrical World, March 27, 1897

Why it changes the telling A named building lets descendants point to a place and say: here, the office did work that the city could use.

How far it carries us It proves the electric and telephone plant role. It does not make the brothers architects or owners of the building.

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St. Paul Building Electric Plant

ST. PAUL BUILDING ELECTRIC PLANT Electrical World, March 27, 1897 Local OCR note.

The entire electric plant of the building, including telephones, etc., was directly under the supervision and installed according to the plans of Messrs. Pattison Brothers; the electric light wiring and switchboard were put in by the New York Electric Equipment Co.; the private telephone system was installed, complete, by the Wilson-Bates Electric Co.; Hatzel & Buehler furnished the public telephone wires; Messrs. Robinson & Wallace were the builders.