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Island Station station could be a decommissioned coal station on the Mississippi but a mile up-river from downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota. St. Paul Gas & power service commissioned construction of the plant in 1921. In 1923, before construction was even complete, a additional economical technology for burning coal was developed, rendering the plant obsolete before it even opened.
The plant came on-line in 1926 associate degreed operated at common fraction the meant capability till 1943 once it absolutely was shifted to an off-peak use and solely created power 6-10 weeks each year. In 1975, Northern States Power Co. (who noninheritable the plant shortly once it absolutely was finished) decommissioned the plant and used it for storage.
In 1985 John Kerwin bought the plant and regenerate parts of the building into studio flats for native artists. For a time a colony of a half-dozen to a dozen flatboat dwellers moored at the plant. In 2003 Island Station L.L.C. Purchased the property for $1.5 million with the hope of turning it into a 235-unit dwelling house with a 20-slip docking facility. The $80 million project started work and quite one hundred units had even been reserved, the project looks to own stalled. As of June 2011 the project has been off and therefore the property is purchasable.
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