File:Chestnut Hill Pumping Station - HAER MA-24 - 076456pu.jpg

Summary

Description

Boston Water Works, Chestnut Hill High-Service Pumping Station, 2450 Beacon Street, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA.

The station, in the Richardsonian Romanesque style of the period, was designed by City Architect Arthur H. Vinal (1854-1923) and completed in 1887. Oldest engine extant is the 1895 triple-expansion steam pumping engine designed by Erasmus D. Leavitt (1836-1916) of Cambridgeport, then one of the country's leading mechanical engineers. (The engine was designated a National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark in 1973).
This image is part of the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), created by the Library of Congress, and hence is in the public domain. Survey number: HAER MA-24.
Jet Lowe, photographer, date of photograph unknown. See: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.ma1196

Date

18 March 2012

Source

Daderot

Author

Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), creator

Permission
(Reusing this file)

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