Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Highgrove Steam Plant
- Description
- Highgrove Steam Plant (color trans.)
- Date
- circa 1960
- Call number
- photCL SCE 07 - 02318
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Highgrove Steam Plant at night with reflection in pool
photCL SCE 07 - 02317
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Calectric's Highgrove Steam Station pioneered outdoor power plant design in the West. Pg. 208.
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Highgrove Powerhouse - The Highgrove Hydro Plant, built by Charles R. Lloyd of the Riverside Water Company, showing water flowing into (sic) the plant and residences surrounding it. The plant burned down in 1915, but its foundation can still be seen today. The plant is believed to have been the first commercial hydroelectric plant built in California. .
photCL SCE 02 - 24443
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Highgrove Powerhouse - First hydroelectric plant established in 1896. Water from Warm Springs Creek of the Santa Ana River.
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Plant Engineer Gustavus Olivio Newman sits beside one of the original D.C. generators at the Highgrove Hydro Plant, ca. 1887. Pg. 10.
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