Chrystal Water and Power Company-Spencer Water and Ice Company, also known as Spencer Ice Plant, is a historic

power station A power station, also referred to as a power plant and sometimes generating station or generating plant, is an industrial facility for the generation of electric power. Power stations are generally connected to an electrical grid. Many p ...

and

ice Ice is water frozen into a solid state, typically forming at or below temperatures of 0 degrees Celsius or Depending on the presence of impurities such as particles of soil or bubbles of air, it can appear transparent or a more or less opaq ...

manufacturing plant located at Spencer,

Roane County, West Virginia Roane County is a county located in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 14,028. Its county seat is Spencer. The county was founded in 1856 and is named for Spencer Roane. History Roane County was created ...

. It was built in 1903 and expanded in 1911. It is a one-story, brick industrial building in the

Romanesque Revival Romanesque Revival (or Neo-Romanesque) is a style of building employed beginning in the mid-19th century inspired by the 11th- and 12th-century Romanesque architecture. Unlike the historic Romanesque style, Romanesque Revival buildings tended to ...

style. The original section measures 82 feet deep and 42 feet wide. Also on the property is a maintenance shed dated to the 1930s. Its development represented the first public attempt to bring water and power to the city of Spencer. It was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 2007.

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Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia Romanesque Revival architecture in West Virginia Energy infrastructure completed in 1903 Buildings and structures in Roane County, West Virginia National Register of Historic Places in Roane County, West Virginia Ice companies {{RoaneCountyWV-NRHP-stub