Butt Valley Dam, Gate Tender's House, Butt Valley Reservoir Road, Caribou, Plumas County, CA

Significance: Butt Valley Dam Gate Tender's House was built by GPW for the use of its employees. The house's most noteworthy resident was Ben Goon, a long-time GPW employee and well-respected gate tender and patrolman of the Butt Valley-to-Caribou Powerhouse flume. Although built in a simple folk style, the house represents a rapidly disappearing architectural type associated with the 1900s hydroelectric development and is one of the few extant gate tender's houses built at the inception of the Almanor/Caribou power system.

Survey number: HAER CA-189-A

Building/structure dates: 1923 Initial Construction

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