07/29/2026
5 fun things about the historic building we call home!
The Dallas Power & Light building was opened on Thanksgiving night in 1931. Not only did it power the city, but illuminated it with rotating colorways - emphasizing it as a Downtown landmark. Sadly the exterior lighting was discontinued in 1975.
The front of the building includes stone portrait busts of 2 notable fellas in the electricity world - Thomas Edison and Charles Steinmetz, proponents of direct and alternating current, respectively.
The building was built in the Art Deco style, specifically Zig•Zag Moderne - the vibrant, angular first phase of Art Deco architecture. Designed by Lang and Witchell, Otto Lang and Frank Witchell are noted with changing the skyline of Dallas, with multiple other buildings in the area.
The gorgeous stained glass transom above the brass entry doors made by Georgia Jensen and Roger McIntosh (we still say a thank you to them every time we walk by 🙃)
Throughout the neighborhoods of Dallas were DP&L substations to generate, transmit, and distribute power. One such substation was the site of Adrian and Will’s wedding, years before the brewery began, and is where 9 Volt’s name originates.
