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Columbia Electric Street Railway, Light and Power Substation

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Area
  
Less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
10001220

Added to NRHP
  
4 February 2011

Built
  
1900 (1900)

Opened
  
1900

Columbia Electric Street Railway, Light & Power Substation

Location
  
Main and Laurel Sts., Columbia, South Carolina

Architectural style
  
Renaissance Revival architecture

Similar
  
Sumter National Forest, EdVenture, Williams‑Brice Stadium, House of Peace Synagogue, Columbia Museum of Art

Columbia Electric Street Railway, Light & Power Substation is a historic power substation located at Columbia, South Carolina. It was built in 1900 with later additions and alterations, and is a two-story, Italian Renaissance Revival style red brick building. It features an arcade of rounded compound arches or archivolts. From 1900 until 1936, the building served as a power substation for the Columbia Electric Street Railway, Light & Power Company and its successors.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

References

Columbia Electric Street Railway, Light & Power Substation Wikipedia