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Bridge Mill Power Plant

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Built
  
1893

NRHP Reference #
  
83003805

Added to NRHP
  
18 November 1983

MPS
  
Pawtucket MRA

Opened
  
1893

Bridge Mill Power Plant

Location
  
Pawtucket, Rhode Island

Architecture firm
  
Stone, Carpenter & Willson

Similar
  
Main Street Bridge, Slater Mill Historic Site, McCoy Stadium, Pawtucket River Bridge

The Bridge Mill Power Plant is an historic hydroelectric plant at 25 Roosevelt Avenue in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. It is a red brick building, with sections two and three stories in height, located on the west bank of the Seekonk River. An ashlar granite retaining wall obscures a conduit which delivers water to the facility from the Pawtucket Falls Dam. The facility has three parts: a gate house, which controls the flow of water into the power house, where five turbines were located. A boiler house housed a steam generation facility which was used to generate power when the water levels were too low for hydroelectric power generation. Built in 1893, this is probably the best-preserved 19th-century hydroelectric power station in Rhode Island.

The plant was listed on the National Register of Historic Register in 1983.

References

Bridge Mill Power Plant Wikipedia