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Butt Valley Dam, Gate Tender's House, Butt Valley Reservoir Road, Caribou, Plumas County, CA
LocationButt Valley Reservoir Road,
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1968.
Notes
Survey number HAER CA-189-A
Significance: Butt Valley Dam Gate Tender's House was built by GPW for the use of its employees. The house's most noteworthy resident was Ben Goon, a long-time GPW employee and well-respected gate tender and patrolman of the Butt Valley-to-Caribou Powerhouse flume. Although built in a simple folk style, the house represents a rapidly disappearing architectural type associated with the 1900s hydroelectric development and is one of the few extant gate tender's houses built at the inception of the Almanor/Caribou power system.
Collection
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
Contents
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1. NORTH FRONT.
2. EAST SIDE.
3. SOUTH REAR, FROM SHED.
4. WEST SIDE.
5. DETAIL, WINDOWS AT NORTHWEST CORNER.
6. FRONT PORCH, LOOKING WEST.
7. REAR PORCH, LOOKING TO EAST.
8. LOOKING EAST ALONG LENGTH OF FRONT SECOND FLOOR PORCH.
9. DETAIL, FUSES AND SWITCH AT EAST END OF SECOND FLOOR PORCH.
10. SLATE PATIO ADJACENT TO SOUTH PORCH OF HOUSE, FROM SOUTHEAST CORNER OF REAR PORCH. SHED IS VISIBLE IN BACKGROUND.
11. VIEW TO NORTHWEST CORNER OF LIVING ROOM, FROM KITCHEN DOORWAY.
12. LOOKING WEST FROM DINING ROOM ACROSS ENTRY HALL TO LIVING ROOM.
13. KITCHEN, TO EAST.
14. TWO SMALL PANTRIES EAST OF KITCHEN; VIEW TO SOUTHEAST.
15. DETAIL, NORTH WINDOW, WEST WALL OF LIVING ROOM.
16. SECOND FLOOR, LOOKING NORTH.
17. LOOKING EAST FROM DOORWAY OF NORTHWEST BEDROOM, ACROSS HALL INTO NORTHEAST BEDROOM. PORCH DOOR IS AT LEFT.
18. ICEBOX IN CRAWL SPACE BENEATH DINING ROOM.
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