{"nrhp_refnum":"97001305","name":"Raleigh Electric Company Power House","other_names":["Carolina Power and Light Power House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"513--515 W. Jones St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Raleigh","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.782471470000075,"lon":-78.64645646899999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1997-10-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A former early twentieth-century steam-powered electric power plant and generating building at the corner of West Jones and North West Streets in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina. Built around 1910 by the Raleigh Electric Company, it is a three-part gable-front brick building with a 1930 one-story addition.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is locally significant under Criterion A as a rare surviving example of an early twentieth-century industrial facility that supplied electric power to Raleigh. It is linked to the growth of the city's electric streetcar system and to the early spread of electric power and lighting. Its design and siting are presented as typical of steam plant practice of the period.","narrative":"Built around 1910 on a site at West Jones and North West Streets in Raleigh, the Raleigh Electric Company Power House is a three-part, gable-front building of steel framing faced with common bond brick. Its two original two-story blocks housed a coal-fired steam plant that generated electricity for Raleigh's electric streetcars, which were first run in 1891, and supplemented supply during low water at hydropower sites. A 1930 one-story block replaced the original boiler room with a file storage building. The plant's coal bunker, trestle, cooling towers and car barn once formed a connected complex on the lot. Its significance rests on its role in supplying the city's electric power during Raleigh's early electrification and on its survival as a rare example of this kind of industrial plant. Much of the original generating machinery was removed, and the rear facade and interior have been altered for storage and offices.","period_of_significance":"c. 1910-1930","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Now used as a wiring and maintenance building; the power equipment was removed and the building converted to storage and office space.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:40.757587-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/65/7226/47722665/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/97001305.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97001305/7443672173-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97001305/7443672173-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Nicholas Oren Rawlings","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Raleigh_Electric_Company_Power_House.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nicholas Oren Rawlings</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Raleigh_Electric_Company_Power_House.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722665","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raleigh_Electric_Company_Power_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24041341"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/raleigh-electric-company-power-house-97001305/"}