This Streamline Moderne industrial relic, with boxy setbacks and creamy terracotta trim, commands an expansive site along the Cache la Poudre River graced by an Art Deco fountain (1938, WPA). The plant was sensitively adapted in 1992 by the Colorado State University Mechanical Engineering Department as a testing facility for alternative fuels.
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