Glendive Heat, Light and Power Company Power Plant

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Glendive Heat, Light and Power Company Power Plant
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LocationClough St., Glendive, Montana
Coordinates 47°6′18″N104°43′2″W / 47.10500°N 104.71722°W / 47.10500; -104.71722
Area1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built1914
Built byGlendive Heat, Light & Power Co.
MPS Glendive MRA
NRHP reference No. 87002511 [1]
Added to NRHPFebruary 3, 1988

The Glendive Heat, Light and Power Company Power Plant on Clough St. in Glendive, Montana was built in 1914. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. The listing included a contributing building and two contributing structures. [1]

The power generating plant was built in 1914 by the Glendive Heat, Light and Power Co. and included two General Electric 500 KW turbo-generators and three coal-fired sterling boilers. These burned lignite coal. The Eastern Montana Light and Power Company took over the plant in 1920. It was bought in 1926 by the Minnesota Northern Power Company, which installed a 2,000-KW Allis Chalmers generator with a Webster gas burner. [2]

It was listed on the National Register as part of a study of multiple historic resources in Glendive which also listed several others. [3] It is now the Farm to Table store in Glendive, Montana.

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Bill Babcock (August 1987). "Montana Historical and Architectural Inventory: Glendive Heat, Light and Power Company Plant". National Park Service . Retrieved July 28, 2017. With three photos from 1987.
  3. William A. Babcock, Jr. (August 1987). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Historic Resources of Glendive, Montana". National Park Service . Retrieved July 27, 2017.