Bay City Traction & Electric Company, Power Station, 301 Washington Street, Bay City, Bay County, MI

Significance: the Bay City Traction and Electric Power Company Power Station was constructed as a steam generating plant providing power for interurban electric traction transportation in Bay City. This building represents a brief but important 30-year period of electric traction power utilized for mass transportation in Michigan cities.

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1558

Survey number: HAER MI-76-A

Building/structure dates: 1893 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: 1908 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: before 1920 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: after 1996 Demolished

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1969 - 1980

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