Chrystal Water and Power Company-Spencer Water and Ice Company

Chrystal Water and Power Company-Spencer Water and Ice Company
Location Church St., Spencer, West Virginia
Coordinates 38°48′2″N 81°21′7″W / 38.80056°N 81.35194°W / 38.80056; -81.35194Coordinates: 38°48′2″N 81°21′7″W / 38.80056°N 81.35194°W / 38.80056; -81.35194
Area less than one acre
Built 1903
Architectural style Romanesque
NRHP Reference # 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

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. 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.


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