Delaware Street Tramway Power Sub-Station, 1448 Delaware Street, Denver, Denver County, CO
Summary
Significance: It is significant for its association with the growth and development of Denver's tramway trolley system, a major transportation system during the first half of the 20th century. This substation was instrumental in the conversion of the system from cable power to effective electrical power. It is more stylistically impressive and retains a greater degree of historic integrity than do the other remaining structures believed to have been substations.
Survey number: HAER CO-12
Building/structure dates: 1913 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1964 Subsequent Work
Tags
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Short, Sidney
Denver City Tramway Company
U.S. Department of Treasury, Bureau of the Mint
Denver Horse Railroad Company
Denver City Railway Company
Denver Consolidated Tramway Company
Stapleton, Benjamin
Johnson, Stanley
N.G. Petry Construciton Company
Location
Denver (Colo.), 39.73923, -104.99292
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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