The Stairs Station Hydroelectric Power Plant was built in 1894-1895 in Big Cottonwood Canyon, about 8 miles (13 km) southeast of Salt Lake City, Utah.

A dam next to the site is associated with the Granite Power Plant farther downstream, and is part of neither historic district.

[2] The power plant was originally built with four Pelton wheels, since replaced by a single Francis turbine capable of generating 1.2 megawatts.

A 1,200-foot (370 m) steel pipeline, now abandoned, connected the dam to a penstock that made the fall to the power plant.

The penstock is about 1,750 feet (530 m) long, made of .5-inch (1.3 cm) steel, with a non-contributing standpipe at its head[2] The station was designed by Robert M. Jones for his Big Cottonwood Power Company at a cost of $325,000.