Star Milling and Electric Company Historic District


Star Milling and Electric Company Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Star Mill Power Plant, May 2012
Show map of Indiana Show map of the US
Location	Junction of County Roads 505 W and 700 N, northeast of Howe, Lima Township, LaGrange County, Indiana
Coordinates	41°44′54″N 85°26′14″W / 41.74833°N 85.43722°W / 41.74833; -85.43722Coordinates: 41°44′54″N 85°26′14″W / 41.74833°N 85.43722°W / 41.74833; -85.43722
Area	4 acres (1.6 ha)
Built	1911 (1911)
Architect	McKee, Ray
NRHP Reference #	95001107^[1]
Added to NRHP	September 14, 1995

Star Milling and Electric Company Historic District, also known as Star Mill Falls and Star Gristmill, is a historic industrial complex and national historic district located in Lima Township, LaGrange County, Indiana. The district encompasses one contributing building, one contributing site, and two contributing structures. They are a small hydroelectric powerhouse (1929), two dams (1929), and the site of the original 1870 grist mill / hydroelectric generating plant. The old mill generated electric power from 1911 to 1929, and in 1930 the new powerhouse began operation.^[2]^{:5, 7}

It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.^[1]

References

1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ "Indiana State Historic Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD)" (Searchable database). Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology. Retrieved 2016-05-01. Note: This includes Richard K. Muntz and Suzanne Fischer (January 1995). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Star Milling and Electric Company Historic District" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-05-01. and Accompanying photographs.

U.S. National Register of Historic Places in Indiana

Topics	Contributing property Keeper of the Register Historic district History of the National Register of Historic Places National Park Service Property types

Lists by county	Adams Allen Bartholomew Benton Blackford Boone Brown Carroll Cass Clark Clay Clinton Crawford Daviess Dearborn Decatur DeKalb Delaware Dubois Elkhart Fayette Floyd Fountain Franklin Fulton Gibson Grant Greene Hamilton Hancock Harrison Hendricks Henry Howard Huntington Jackson Jasper Jay Jefferson Jennings Johnson Knox Kosciusko LaGrange Lake LaPorte Lawrence Madison Marion: Center Township Marion: Other Marshall Martin Miami Monroe Montgomery Morgan Newton Noble Ohio Orange Owen Parke Perry Pike Porter Posey Pulaski Putnam Randolph Ripley Rush St. Joseph Scott Shelby Spencer Starke Steuben Sullivan Switzerland Tippecanoe Tipton Union Vanderburgh Vermillion Vigo Wabash Warren Warrick Washington Wayne Wells White Whitley

Other lists	Bridges National Historic Landmarks

Keeper of the Register History of the National Register of Historic Places Property types Historic district Contributing property

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 12/2/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.