This horizontal stationary steam engine, a 350-horsepower Allis Chalmers "Corliss" engine operating at 85 r.p.m., was built by the E.P. Allie Company in 1905 after representatives of the new Bush & Lane Piano Company ordered one at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair for a factory then being built in Holland, Michigan, on 24th Street and Columbia. Installed in 1905, it served as the sole power source for all the machinery in the building, connected to a line-shaft system by a rare rope-belting arrangement wrapped around the flywheel, with rotating power distributed through the manufacturing areas by belts running from pulleys on the shaft to individual machines. Before reliable electricity and individual electric motors on machinery, this was a common factory power system across the United States. Bush & Lane ceased operations in 1929, and Baker Furniture purchased the facility in 1933. The engine generally operated two shifts per day until its retirement in 1959. In 1957 it was removed from the factory and displayed near the Baker Furniture Museum, later the site of Freedom Village; when construction began there, it was removed again, donated to the City of Holland, placed in storage, and restored during the summer of 2003 by a group of volunteers on a stable base for preservation as industrial heritage.