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Item Title
Ames Hydroelectric Plant, Ames, San Miguel County, CO
Location
Ames vicinity, CO
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1968.
Notes
Survey number HAER CO-2
Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (FN-4).
Building/structure dates:
1891 initial construction
Building/structure dates:
1895 subsequent work
Building/structure dates:
1905 subsequent work
Significance: In 1890-91 L.L. Nunn built the world's first single-phase AC power transmission system at Ames in order to power the nearby Gold King Mine's stamp mill. The plant operated under a head of 320 feet and consisted of a Pelton water wheel connected to a 3000 volt, 133 cycle Westinghouse AC generator. The current was then directly transmitted 2.6 miles to the motor powering the stamp mill...
Subjects
Power IndustryStone BuildingsWooden Buildings
Related Names
Nunn, L. L.
Scott, Charles
Gold King Milling & Mining Company
Telluride Power Company
Western Colorado Electric Company
Collection
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
1. C. 1894 VIEW OF THE ORIGINAL 1891 AMES POWER HOUSE.
2. EXTERIOR VIEW (C.1895) OF THE 1895 POWER HOUSE.
3. EXTERIOR VIEW (C. 1910) OF THE 1895 POWER HOUSE. CORNER OF 1905 POWER HOUSE AT FAR LEFT.
4. EXTERIOR VIEW (C.1913) OF 1895 POWER HOUSE, ROOF OF 1905 POWER HOUSE IS VISIBLE IN RIGHT SIDE OF PHOTO.
5. INTERIOR VIEW (C.1900) OF 1895 POWER HOUSE SHOWING SWITCHBOARD.
6. INTERIOR VIEW (c.1900) OF 1895 POWER HOUSE SHOWING SWITCHBOARD ON LEFT AND GENERATOR ON EIGHT.
7. EXTERIOR VIEW (C.1910) OF 1905 POWER HOUSE.
8. GENERAL VIEW OF AMES POWER STATION. 1905 POWER HOUSE AT CENTER OF PHOTO, 1895 POWER HOUSE TO RIGHT OF 1905 POWER HOUSE.
9. PLAN AND SECTIONS OF TELLURIDE POWER COMPANY'S 1905 POWER HOUSE.
10. MAP SHOWING 'THE ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTING LINES AND WATERWAYS OF THE TELLURIDE POWER COMPANY OF COLORADO'. THE AMES POWER STATION LIES AT THE FORK OF THE GORGE, LOWER LEFT OF CENTER IN THE PHOTOGRAPH.
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