Chrystal Water and Power Company-Spencer Water and Ice Company
Chrystal Water and Power Company-Spencer Water and Ice Company | |
 Spencer_Water_and_Ice_Company | |
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| Location | Church St., Spencer, West Virginia |
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| Coordinates | 38°47′55″N 81°21′8″W / 38.79861°N 81.35222°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1903 |
| Architectural style | Romanesque |
| NRHP reference No. | 07000238[1] |
| Added to NRHP | March 27, 2007 |
Chrystal Water and Power Company-Spencer Water and Ice Company, also known as Spencer Ice Plant, is a historic power station and ice manufacturing plant located at Spencer, Roane County, West Virginia. It was built in 1903 and expanded in 1911. It is a one-story, brick industrial building in the Romanesque Revival style. The original section measures 82 feet deep and 42 feet wide. Also on the property is a maintenance shed dated to the 1930s. Its development represented the first public attempt to bring water and power to the city of Spencer.[2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ Frank Unger (January 2007). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Chrystal Water and Power Company-Spencer Water and Ice Company" (PDF). State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2011-07-09.
Categories:
- Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia
- Romanesque Revival architecture in West Virginia
- Energy infrastructure completed in 1903
- Buildings and structures in Roane County, West Virginia
- National Register of Historic Places in Roane County, West Virginia
- Ice companies
- Mid-Ohio Valley, West Virginia Registered Historic Place stubs