SMUD Museum of Science & Curiosity (Sacramento, California)

 museum, NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, interesting place

Former Sacramento River Station B PG&E Powerhouse, also known as Sacramento River Station B, at 400 Jibboom Street in Sacramento faces west between Interstate 5 and the Sacramento River. Willis Polk, a notable Bay Area architect, designed the structure in 1912.

The building is in its original location, just a quarter mile north of Sacramento’s central business district. Consistent with many public utility buildings of the era, Polk designed the PG&E Powerhouse in the Classical Revival Style.

In 1912, the facility began producing electricity for the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (hereafter PG&E) as an auxiliary powerplant and transformer substation where voltage was transformed for distribution. In 1924, PG&E upgraded the facility, making it the largest steam turbine power plant in the region.

It is now adaptively reused as a museum.

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