The Savannah Power Company brought this station online beginning in 1912 and it was fully operational by 1913, greatly expanding the power generating capacity of their earlier plant on Indian Street (now the Savannah College of Art and Design’s [SCAD] Hamilton Hall), and making it Savannah’s principal source of power until the mid-1950s. The large-scale arched windows and detailed brickwork reflect how people in the early twentieth century viewed this piece of municipal infrastructure as a civic landmark. Stone and Webster’s distinctive triangular logo ornaments the western gable end. The River Street facility was designed in 1912 to allow for eastern additions and was expanded multiple times. Originally built to burn coal, it was converted in 1920 to oil and later to natural gas and had a capacity of one hundred megawatts. The turbine engine room features prominent iron flat-trusses spanning the interior and large skylights. The station, which closed in 2005, will be the centerpiece of a multibuilding hotel and retail complex developed by Richard Kessler.