UT 152, Salt Lake City, Utah. County/parish: Salt Lake.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places April 20, 1989. NRIS 89000283.
Part of Electric Power Plants of Utah MPS (NRIS 64500664).
6 contributing buildings. 1 contributing structure.Also known as:
The Granite Hydroelectric Power Station was built in 1896–1897 at the mouth of Big Cottonwood Canyon, about 6 miles (9.7 km) southeast of Salt Lake City, Utah, United States(in what is now eastern Cottonwood Heights. The plant comprises the powerhouse, transformer house, a wooden conduit, penstocks, and a small dam. Like the Stairs Station upstream, it represents an intact high-head generating plant from the late 19th century.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71999935