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Bureau of Mines Boulder City Experimental Station, Date Street north of U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Clark County, NV
- Title: Bureau of Mines Boulder City Experimental Station, Date Street north of U.S. Highway 93, Boulder City, Clark County, NV
- Other Title:
Date Street Complex
Bureau of Mines Metallurgy Research Laboratory - Creator(s): Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
- Related Names:
Mead, Elwood
U.S. Department of the Interior
Bureau of Reclamation
DeBoer, S R
Finch, John W
Barron, Ysidro R , contractor
Kautz Environmental Consultants, Incorporated , contractor
Conner, Kelly , field team
Ranck, Stephen C , field team
Pernick, Andy , photographer
Kimball, Monique E , historian - Date Created/Published: Documentation compiled after 1933
- Medium:
Photo(s): 1
Data Page(s): 50
Photo Caption Page(s): 1 - Reproduction Number: ---
- Rights Advisory:
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html)
- Call Number: HABS NEV,2-BOUC,1-
- Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
- Notes:
- Significance: The Bureau of Mines, once part of the U.S. Department of the Interior, used the Date Street Complex for the purposes of testing methods of recovery and processing of low-grade minerals located within a 200-mile radius of the Hoover Dam area. In 1983, a nomination for the Boulder City Historic District, which encompassed the Date Street Complex, included two of the buildings, now known as Buildings 100 and 200. Two in-house Bureau of Reclamation reports of the complex extended the contributing elements to include Buildings 400, 500, 600, the Pump House, and the Weigh Station (Scale House). These additional buildings were included because they fell within the period of significance for the Boulder City Historic District, which was part of the Boulder Canyon Project (Hoover Dam), and was an integral part of the history of American City Planning. The period of significance identified in the nomination was 1931 to 1945, with two phases: one of construction, the other of operation. The second phase applies to this complex, in that the Bureau of Mines was a federal agency that established operations in Boulder City. Access to plentiful and inexpensive energy and water, as well as land, were the important features for the new Electrometallurgical Experimental Station, where testing could be conducted on a larger scale than that done in Reno and at other Bureau of Mines facilities. The buildings considered as contributing elements are not significant on their own, but as a part of the complex, they "convey enough of their historic character to be considered contributing...based on National Register Criteria [sic] A." The buildings addressed in this Historic American Buildings Survey are those that will be demolished. These are: Buildings 300, 400, 500, 600, 900, the Pump House, and the Scales Building. Buildings 300 and 900 are not considered contributing because their construction dates are not within the period of significance.
- Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N577
- Survey number: HABS NV-35
- Building/structure dates: ca. 1941 Initial Construction
- Building/structure dates: 1942 Subsequent Work
- Building/structure dates: ca. 1949 Subsequent Work
- Building/structure dates: 1952 Subsequent Work
- Building/structure dates: ca. 1979 Subsequent Work
- Building/structure dates: 1981 Subsequent Work
- Subjects:
- Place:
- Latitude/Longitude: 35.97861, -114.83167
- Collections:
- Part of: Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
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- Call Number: HABS NEV,2-BOUC,1-
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Data Page(s): 50
Photo Caption Page(s): 1
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- Call Number: HABS NEV,2-BOUC,1-
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