The Cupola Building Part V

Over the past couple of days I have completed the west end of the Cupola Furnace with the power house addition and the small brick blacksmith shop tucked in behind the Boiler House. 

The powerhouse addition tucked into the western end of the Cupola building and along its north wall housed a couple of steam engines which provided heat, general use steam and compressed air throughout the smelter complex. They also powered a couple of generators which provided electricity not only to the smelter complex, but also to one of the copper mines high on the bluff to the north. 

The blacksmith shop was an important area in a plant which constructed so many of its systems and equipment in house. This small brick building was heavily bashed from a DPM "modular learning kit" building. The build was reminiscent of my model car building days many moons ago, since the wall sections were heavily "chopped, channeled and sectioned"

I am now trying to decide whether I should steel myself to begin construction of the large Jacobsville sandstone reverberatory furnace, or move on to the smelter office, which was a Queen Anne style clapboard structure. Time and temperament will tell!