This vertical panorama at 66.5-by-19.5 inches documents Power House No. 6 in Cleveland—continuing Hayashi’s series on the electrical generating infrastructure that powered the city’s industrial economy. The extreme vertical format, over five and a half feet tall yet under twenty inches wide, creates a tower-like composition emphasizing the structure’s soaring height.

Created in 1986, the work forms part of Hayashi’s systematic documentation of Cleveland’s power generation facilities. The numbering—No. 3, No. 6, No. 7—suggests an industrial system of considerable scale, multiple generating stations distributed across the city to serve its manufacturing needs. Each power house represented major capital investment in infrastructure that served the broader industrial economy.

The vertical format creates visual rhythm when the power house series is viewed together: narrow vertical panels documenting structures whose architecture demanded upward-looking documentation. Smokestacks, turbine halls, and mechanical systems rose skyward, requiring a compositional approach different from the horizontal panoramas suited to landscape documentation.

Power House No. 6’s position within the series suggests geographical distribution: Cleveland’s industrial geography required generating capacity throughout the city, proximity to load centers reducing transmission losses. The photo collage technique fragments the vertical architecture while maintaining the upward movement characterizing power house design.

These power houses witnessed Cleveland’s industrial zenith and decline, generating electricity that powered manufacturing during its expansion and watching that manufacturing collapse during the 1980s contraction. This vertical panorama preserves the infrastructure of that transition, documenting the power generation system that served an industrial economy now vanished.