Iron Turbine Windmill
National Register of Historic Places

Iron Turbine Windmill

Prescott, Yavapai County, Arizona
Listed
July 8, 1981
Type
Structure
Period
Civil War
Ref No.
81000139

About this property

Iron Turbine Windmill is a historic windmill at 415 W. Gurley Street, on the grounds of the Sharlot Hall Museum in Prescott, Arizona. It is technically a windpump, but the American term is windmill. The windmill was built in the period from 1876 to 1885. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981. According to its National Register nomination,The "Iron Turbine" windmill is the sole known intact example of the first mass produced all-metal windmill remaining in the Southwest and probably the United States. Produced by Mast, Foos and Company of Springfield, Ohio, from 1876 to ca. 1898, the mill is highly significant as it relates to the technical evolution of turbine wheeltype water pumping windmills. The iron and steel construction figured prominently in advertising. The company proudly declared that their mill, "with no wood about it to swell, shrink, rattle and be torn to pieces by the wind" naturally was "much more durable" than any of its wooden competitors. As early as 1884, they could boast that their mills were in use in all the states and territories of the United States as well as in England, France, Germany, Russia, Australia, New Zealand and the Sandwich Islands.

Location

415 W. Gurley St.
Prescott, Yavapai County, Arizona
34.54162, -112.47484

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When was Iron Turbine Windmill listed on the National Register?

Iron Turbine Windmill was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 8, 1981.

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Iron Turbine Windmill is classified as a structure in the National Register of Historic Places.

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