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Tesla Science Center Board visits Wardenclyffe site
25 February 2009
With the Wardenclyffe site now up for sale, members of the Board
of Directors of the Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe recently
had an exciting opportunity to visit and explore in the 100+ year-old
laboratory of Nikola Tesla in Shoreham, NY.
On the afternoon of February 25, 2009 Board members, led by the agent
handling the property for Agfa Corporation, and joined by representatives
of Legislator Dan Losquadro and Assemblyman Marc Alessi, representatives
of the New York State Department of Parks and Historic Preservation,
and the president of the
Shoreham Civic Organization,
were taken throughout the old building and were able to see the
condition of the structure, and many of its original parts.
Of particular interest was the fact that all of the four outside
walls of the original building seem to be intact, and many of the
windows that were bricked up were removed and are safely stored in
the attic, awaiting restoration and replacement in their original
locations.
Armed with paper, pencils, maps, floorplans and cameras, the Board
recorded the visit and identified many of the interior and exterior
locations from the original structure. Board members also did some
measuring of the building and its relationship to the tower base.
The Board hopes to be able to revisit the site again in the near
future to do some additional data collection and to take additional
photographs of the add-on structures as well as the original Tesla
building.
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