Missouri Electric Light and Power Co
- Also Known As: Missouri-Edison Electric Co.
- Also Known As: Union Electric Co. also Stern Fixtures
- Address: 1906-32 Locust St
- Vicinity: N 20th St
- Neighborhood of Downtown West, STL in City of St Louis
In 1889, Missouri Electric Light & Power Company entered a crowded field of local entrepreneurs in an important and lucrative new industry. Competing aggressively, Missouri Electric added capacity at this site before constructing an additional facility in the Mill Creek Valley area just west of downtown. But in late 1903, Missouri Electric became one of the last independent power companies to be absorbed by the giant Union Electric Company. The red brick Romanesque Revival buildings on Locust Street comprise the only extant properties associated with Missouri Electric and, additionally, constitute the oldest surviving electric power generating station in St Louis. The site continued to serve as a substation of the rapidly expanding Union Electric Company until 1974. The period of significance runs from 1889 to 1955, the arbitrary fifty-year cutoff. - NRHP