{"nrhp_refnum":"99000754","name":"North Carolina Electrical Power Company Electric Generating Plant","other_names":["Elk Mountain Steam Generating Plant"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2024 Riverside Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Woodfin","county":"Buncombe County","state":"NC","lat":35.64032011200004,"lon":-82.59779845899999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-06-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Industry"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-and-a-half to two-story brick and concrete early twentieth-century industrial electric power house on the south bank of the French Broad River and Beaverdam Creek in Woodfin, Buncombe County, North Carolina, completed July 1, 1916.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the plant is a rare, highly intact early twentieth-century industrial building along the river and the only surviving one of three generating plants developed by W. T. Weaver. It also states the plant was the only generating station to stay in service during the July 1916 French Broad River flood, and that it contributed to the industrial development of Asheville.","narrative":"Completed on July 1, 1916, this brick and concrete power house on the French Broad River in Woodfin was built by developer W. T. Weaver and designed by engineer Charles E. Waddell. It was the first of the Weaver plants to use steam generation, burning coal stored on site, and it originally had a 250-foot brick smokestack that has since been removed. The building keeps its original interior arrangement of basement conditioning room, ash room and turbine room, with exposed steel roof trusses. During the July 16, 1916 flood it was the only generating plant in Asheville still operating, supplying power through November while the Weaver Plant dam was repaired. The building is regarded as a rare, highly intact example of early twentieth-century industrial architecture along the river, and it is the only surviving one of Weaver's three generating plants. Its later east addition for a switch room dates to about 1925.","period_of_significance":"1916-1948","architect_builder":"Charles E. Waddell (designer/engineer); W. T. Weaver (developer)","architectural_style":"Industrial-style","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:42.335424-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/26/7192/47719226/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/99000754.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000754/5eb9807a88-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99000754/5eb9807a88-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Upstateherd","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:North_Carolina_Electrical_Power_Company_Electric_Generating_Plant.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Upstateherd</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:North_Carolina_Electrical_Power_Company_Electric_Generating_Plant.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47719226","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina_Electrical_Power_Company_Electric_Generating_Plant","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18011308"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/buncombe-county/north-carolina-electrical-power-company-electric-generating-plant-99000754/"}