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Roosevelt Power Canal & Diversion Dam, Parallels Salt River, Roosevelt, Gila County, AZ

Roosevelt Power Canal & Diversion Dam, Parallels Salt River, Roosevelt...

Significance: The Roosevelt Power Canal was built as an integral part of the Salt River Project and represents the U. S. Reclamation Service's first involvement in the construction of hydroelectric power facili... More

Roosevelt Power Canal & Diversion Dam, Parallels Salt River, Roosevelt, Gila County, AZ

Roosevelt Power Canal & Diversion Dam, Parallels Salt River, Roosevelt...

Significance: The Roosevelt Power Canal was built as an integral part of the Salt River Project and represents the U. S. Reclamation Service's first involvement in the construction of hydroelectric power facili... More

Rush Creek Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse Exciters, Rush Creek, June Lake, Mono County, CA

Rush Creek Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse Exciters, Rush Creek, June...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, warehouse, depot, train station, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Minnesota Veterans' Home Complex, Power House, 5101 Minnehaha Avenue, South, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, MN

Minnesota Veterans' Home Complex, Power House, 5101 Minnehaha Avenue, ...

Significance: The Power House No. 14, originally constructed in 1888, and rebuilt in 1937, utilizing the chimney from the original structure, is one of 17 remaining structures built on a plot of land between th... More

Hoover Dam, Los Angeles Switch Yard, U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Clark County, NV

Hoover Dam, Los Angeles Switch Yard, U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Cl...

Significance: It was the first and largest of the six major Federal switchyards at Hoover Dam. When the first stage of the switchyard began operations in 1936, it provided electricity at the highest voltages ev... More

Rush Creek Hydroelectric System, Worker Cottage, Rush Creek, June Lake, Mono County, CA

Rush Creek Hydroelectric System, Worker Cottage, Rush Creek, June Lake...

Significance: Building 105 is one of the earliest Rush Creek worker cottages. Designed by the Riverside, California architect, W.C. Tanner, it combines Craftsman Bungalow and English Cottage styles. The Rush ... More

Bureau of Mines Metallurgical Research Laboratory, Original Building, Date Street north of U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Clark County, NV

Bureau of Mines Metallurgical Research Laboratory, Original Building, ...

Significance: Building 200, as part of the Date Street Complex, was part of the Bureau of Mines Electrometallurgical Research Facility located in Boulder City. As such, it is within the designated Boulder City... More

Electron Hydroelectric Project, Along Puyallup River, Electron, Pierce County, WA

Electron Hydroelectric Project, Along Puyallup River, Electron, Pierce...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a basement, underground, lobby, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Electron Hydroelectric Project, Along Puyallup River, Electron, Pierce County, WA

Electron Hydroelectric Project, Along Puyallup River, Electron, Pierce...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a hydroelectric dam, industrial facility, power generation, water cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Electron Hydroelectric Project, Along Puyallup River, Electron, Pierce County, WA

Electron Hydroelectric Project, Along Puyallup River, Electron, Pierce...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a hydroelectric dam, industrial facility, power generation, water cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Electron Hydroelectric Project, Along Puyallup River, Electron, Pierce County, WA

Electron Hydroelectric Project, Along Puyallup River, Electron, Pierce...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a hydroelectric dam, industrial facility, power generation, water cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Havre Rainbow Transmission Line, Havre City to Great Falls vicinity, Montana, Great Falls, Cascade County, MT

Havre Rainbow Transmission Line, Havre City to Great Falls vicinity, M...

Significance: The Transmission Line is significant as a contributing element of the Fort Peck Town Site and Dam Multiple Resource Property. It maintains its integrity and is directly associated with the constru... More

Havre Rainbow Transmission Line, Havre City to Great Falls vicinity, Montana, Great Falls, Cascade County, MT

Havre Rainbow Transmission Line, Havre City to Great Falls vicinity, M...

Significance: The Transmission Line is significant as a contributing element of the Fort Peck Town Site and Dam Multiple Resource Property. It maintains its integrity and is directly associated with the constru... More

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse 8, Operator Cottage, Big Creek, Big Creek, Fresno County, CA

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse 8, Operator Cottage, Big Cr...

Significance: Building 105, Powerhouse 8, is one of the few surviving examples of operator housing from the Big Creek System period of significance (1911-1929). Its significance derives from its contribution t... More

Columbia Basin Project, Grand Coulee Dam & Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake, Across Columbia River, Southeast of Town of Grand Coulee, Grand Coulee, Grant County, WA

Columbia Basin Project, Grand Coulee Dam & Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake,...

The Columbia Basin Project is located in 5 counties: Ferry, Grant, Lincoln, Okanogan, and Stevens Significance: At the time of construction, Grand Coulee Dam was the most massive structure ever built: construct... More

Rush Creek Hydroelectric System, Clubhouse Cottage, Rush Creek, June Lake, Mono County, CA

Rush Creek Hydroelectric System, Clubhouse Cottage, Rush Creek, June L...

Significance: Building 108 is one of the earliest Rush Creek worker cottages. Designed by the Riverside, California architect, W.C. Tanner, it combines Craftsman Bungalow and English Cottage styles. The Rush ... More

Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Building No. 7, 903 South Fourth Street, north rear, Hamilton, Ravalli County, MT

Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Building No. 7, 903 South Fourth Street, ...

Significance: The Rocky Mountain Laboratories possess national significance due to the pioneering research conducted at these laboratories from 1921-1945 toward the development of vaccines for insect-borne dise... More

Commonwealth Edison Company, Crawford Electrical Generating Station, 3501 South Pulaski Road, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Commonwealth Edison Company, Crawford Electrical Generating Station, 3...

Significance: The buildings of the Crawford Electric Generating Station were designed by the renowned architectural firm of Graham, Anderson, Probst and White; the Crawford Station also reflects the rapid expan... More

Commonwealth Edison Company, Crawford Electrical Generating Station, 3501 South Pulaski Road, Chicago, Cook County, IL

Commonwealth Edison Company, Crawford Electrical Generating Station, 3...

Significance: The buildings of the Crawford Electric Generating Station were designed by the renowned architectural firm of Graham, Anderson, Probst and White; the Crawford Station also reflects the rapid expan... More

Columbia Canal & Power Plant, Waterfront of Broad River, Columbia, Richland County, SC

Columbia Canal & Power Plant, Waterfront of Broad River, Columbia, Ric...

Significance: Designed to enable the navigation of the Broad and Congaree Rivers at their confluence in Columbia, the canal was completed in 1824 and enlarged in 1891; the 1891 portion of the canal is the signi... More

Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Building No. 7, 903 South Fourth Street, north rear, Hamilton, Ravalli County, MT

Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Building No. 7, 903 South Fourth Street, ...

Significance: The Rocky Mountain Laboratories possess national significance due to the pioneering research conducted at these laboratories from 1921-1945 toward the development of vaccines for insect-borne dise... More

Columbia Canal & Power Plant, Waterfront of Broad River, Columbia, Richland County, SC

Columbia Canal & Power Plant, Waterfront of Broad River, Columbia, Ric...

Significance: Designed to enable the navigation of the Broad and Congaree Rivers at their confluence in Columbia, the canal was completed in 1824 and enlarged in 1891; the 1891 portion of the canal is the signi... More

Columbia Canal & Power Plant, Waterfront of Broad River, Columbia, Richland County, SC

Columbia Canal & Power Plant, Waterfront of Broad River, Columbia, Ric...

Significance: Designed to enable the navigation of the Broad and Congaree Rivers at their confluence in Columbia, the canal was completed in 1824 and enlarged in 1891; the 1891 portion of the canal is the signi... More

Columbia Canal & Power Plant, Waterfront of Broad River, Columbia, Richland County, SC

Columbia Canal & Power Plant, Waterfront of Broad River, Columbia, Ric...

Significance: Designed to enable the navigation of the Broad and Congaree Rivers at their confluence in Columbia, the canal was completed in 1824 and enlarged in 1891; the 1891 portion of the canal is the signi... More

Columbia Canal & Power Plant, Waterfront of Broad River, Columbia, Richland County, SC

Columbia Canal & Power Plant, Waterfront of Broad River, Columbia, Ric...

Significance: Designed to enable the navigation of the Broad and Congaree Rivers at their confluence in Columbia, the canal was completed in 1824 and enlarged in 1891; the 1891 portion of the canal is the signi... More

Hoover Dam, Static Towers & Lines, U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Clark County, NV

Hoover Dam, Static Towers & Lines, U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Clar...

Significance: It was constructed as an integral part of the control and protection system for the Hoover Dam switchyard complex, to protect the switchyards and transformer circuits from lightning strikes. Surv... More

Naval Air Station Fallon, Power Plant, 800 Complex, off Carson Road near intersection of Pasture & Berney Roads, Fallon, Churchill County, NV

Naval Air Station Fallon, Power Plant, 800 Complex, off Carson Road ne...

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Folsom Powerhouse, Adjacent to American River, Folsom, Sacramento County, CA

Folsom Powerhouse, Adjacent to American River, Folsom, Sacramento Coun...

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Folsom Powerhouse, Adjacent to American River, Folsom, Sacramento County, CA

Folsom Powerhouse, Adjacent to American River, Folsom, Sacramento Coun...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural landscape with a watermill, water, decayed building, 18th, 19th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Folsom Powerhouse, Adjacent to American River, Folsom, Sacramento County, CA

Folsom Powerhouse, Adjacent to American River, Folsom, Sacramento Coun...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a factory, warehouse, commercial or industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

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

Bay City Traction & Electric Company, Power Station, 301 Washington St...

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 buildin... More

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

Bay City Traction & Electric Company, Power Station, 301 Washington St...

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 buildin... More

National Park Seminary, Service Buildings, Between Linden Lane & Beach Drive, Silver Spring, Montgomery County, MD

National Park Seminary, Service Buildings, Between Linden Lane & Beach...

Significance: The service buildings were essential for the operations of the school. Some of them, including the power plant and fire house, still are. Even though the buildings were utilitarian in function, ... More

Hoover Dam, Cable Hoist House, U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Clark County, NV

Hoover Dam, Cable Hoist House, U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Clark Co...

Significance: It provided access to control cable tunnels from the power plant to the switchyard relay house, and a transformer in the lower level of the hoist house provided operating electricity to the switch... More

Hoover Dam, Metropolitan Water District Switchyard, U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Clark County, NV

Hoover Dam, Metropolitan Water District Switchyard, U.S. Highway 93, B...

Significance: It was the second-largest Federal switchyard at Hoover Dam, the switchyard provided needed power for expansion of irrigation and municipal water supplies in California during and after WWII, but i... More

Fair Lane, Powerhouse, 4901 Evergreen Road, Dearborn, Wayne County, MI

Fair Lane, Powerhouse, 4901 Evergreen Road, Dearborn, Wayne County, MI

Public domain scan of architectural drawing, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

Significance: As the first project built by the U.S. Reclamation Service in Utah, the Strawberry Valley Project had a major impact on the State. It represents the beginning of Federal assistance in water devel... More

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

Significance: As the first project built by the U.S. Reclamation Service in Utah, the Strawberry Valley Project had a major impact on the State. It represents the beginning of Federal assistance in water devel... More

Hoover Dam, Southern California Edison 230-KV Switchyard, U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Clark County, NV

Hoover Dam, Southern California Edison 230-KV Switchyard, U.S. Highway...

Significance: It was an integral element of the Hoover Dam electrical generation and transmission system. This switchyard provided much-needed electricity during WWII to power Douglas, Vultee, and Northrup airc... More

Delaware Street Tramway Power Sub-Station, 1448 Delaware Street, Denver, Denver County, CO

Delaware Street Tramway Power Sub-Station, 1448 Delaware Street, Denve...

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 w... More

Roosevelt Power Canal & Diversion Dam, Parallels Salt River, Roosevelt, Gila County, AZ

Roosevelt Power Canal & Diversion Dam, Parallels Salt River, Roosevelt...

Significance: The Roosevelt Power Canal was built as an integral part of the Salt River Project and represents the U. S. Reclamation Service's first involvement in the construction of hydroelectric power facili... More

Barnes Estate, Generator House, South side U.S. Route 40 between Fairchance & Buttermilk Roads, Hopwood, Fayette County, PA

Barnes Estate, Generator House, South side U.S. Route 40 between Fairc...

Written data includes a floor plan. Significance: Is a contributing resource of the Barnes Estate, an early 20th century property. Survey number: HABS PA-5499-A Building/structure dates: after. 1920- before. ... More

Dry Channel Bridge, Spanning Clark Fork, Thompson Falls, Sanders County, MT

Dry Channel Bridge, Spanning Clark Fork, Thompson Falls, Sanders Count...

Survey number: HAER MT-29 Building/structure dates: 1911 Initial Construction

Horse Mesa Dam, Salt River, 65 miles East of Phoenix, Phoenix, Maricopa County, AZ

Horse Mesa Dam, Salt River, 65 miles East of Phoenix, Phoenix, Maricop...

Significance: It was the second dam constructed under the Salt River Project's hydroelectric expansion program in the 1920s. Survey number: HAER AZ-15 Building/structure dates: 1927 Initial Construction Nati... More

Hoover Dam, Metropolitan Water District Line 1, U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Clark County, NV

Hoover Dam, Metropolitan Water District Line 1, U.S. Highway 93, Bould...

Significance: The transmission line was a critical element of the Hoover Dam electrical generation and transmission system. The line provided Hoover Dam power for development of irrigation and municipal water d... More

Bonneville Power Administration Burley Substation, 1221 Albion Avenue, Burley, Cassia County, ID

Bonneville Power Administration Burley Substation, 1221 Albion Avenue,...

Significance: The Burley Substation is significant as a distribution component of the United States Reclamation Service's Minidoka Project, which pioneered agricultural development and the market for commercial... More

Davis Dam, Switchyards, Southeast of Davis Dam, Kingman, Mohave County, AZ

Davis Dam, Switchyards, Southeast of Davis Dam, Kingman, Mohave County...

Significance: Davis Dam is significant for its role in control of the lower Colorado River, fulfillment of obligations under the Mexican Treaty of 1944, and economic development of the Southwest after World War... More

Electron Hydroelectric Project, Along Puyallup River, Electron, Pierce County, WA

Electron Hydroelectric Project, Along Puyallup River, Electron, Pierce...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bridge, railroad structure, train viaduct, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Electron Hydroelectric Project, Along Puyallup River, Electron, Pierce County, WA

Electron Hydroelectric Project, Along Puyallup River, Electron, Pierce...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a hydroelectric dam, industrial facility, power generation, water cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Michigan Lake Superior Power Company, Portage Street, Sault Ste. Marie, Chippewa County, MI

Michigan Lake Superior Power Company, Portage Street, Sault Ste. Marie...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a hydroelectric dam, industrial facility, power generation, water cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Michigan Lake Superior Power Company, Portage Street, Sault Ste. Marie, Chippewa County, MI

Michigan Lake Superior Power Company, Portage Street, Sault Ste. Marie...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a factory, warehouse, commercial or industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse 8, Operator Cottage, Big Creek, Big Creek, Fresno County, CA

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse 8, Operator Cottage, Big Cr...

Significance: Building 105, Powerhouse 8, is one of the few surviving examples of operator housing from the Big Creek System period of significance (1911-1929). Its significance derives from its contribution t... More

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse 8, Operator Cottage, Big Creek, Big Creek, Fresno County, CA

Big Creek Hydroelectric System, Powerhouse 8, Operator Cottage, Big Cr...

Significance: Building 105, Powerhouse 8, is one of the few surviving examples of operator housing from the Big Creek System period of significance (1911-1929). Its significance derives from its contribution t... More

Abbeville Hydroelectric Power Plant, State Highway 284 & County Road 72, Rocky River (historical), Abbeville County, SC

Abbeville Hydroelectric Power Plant, State Highway 284 & County Road 7...

Significance: J. Roy Pennell acquired property and began construction of the multiple arch reinforced concrete dam in 1933. Pennell abandoned the project in 1935 and it was completed by the City of Abbeville w... More

Rush Creek Hydroelectric System, Clubhouse Cottage, Rush Creek, June Lake, Mono County, CA

Rush Creek Hydroelectric System, Clubhouse Cottage, Rush Creek, June L...

Significance: Building 108 is one of the earliest Rush Creek worker cottages. Designed by the Riverside, California architect, W.C. Tanner, it combines Craftsman Bungalow and English Cottage styles. The Rush ... More

Rush Creek Hydroelectric System, Clubhouse Cottage, Rush Creek, June Lake, Mono County, CA

Rush Creek Hydroelectric System, Clubhouse Cottage, Rush Creek, June L...

Significance: Building 108 is one of the earliest Rush Creek worker cottages. Designed by the Riverside, California architect, W.C. Tanner, it combines Craftsman Bungalow and English Cottage styles. The Rush ... More

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