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Department store magnate Alexander Turney Stewart bought land in Hempstead Plains in 1869 for a planned community which he called Garden City. The community included a Holly water works and a Holly steam system that was intended to be a community-wide system but local development was slow and the steam system ended up primarily serving the Episcopal Cathedral of the Incarnation and other buildings owned by the diocese. The steam was originally supplied by boilers in the Holly water works building, but a boiler was installed in a the village warehouse to provide the steam needs. The water and steam systems were owned by the Stewart estate.
In 1893 the Garden City Company was formed to take over the assets of the Stewart Estate. At some point the steam system was sold or given to the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island. They built a new heat and power plant in 1897 that used exhaust steam for heating their properties. This plant was demolished in 1946.
References
1879 "Garden
City Visited and the Holly Steam System Explained by a Son of the
Inventor," Times Union, December 5, 1879, Page 2.
A VISIT TO GARDEN CITY, At the suggestion of Alderman French, the party,
on leaving the Hempstead Reservoir, proceeded to Garden City in order to
inspeot the workings of the Holly steam and