Bellevue Standpipe

Bellevue Standpipe

Bellevue Standpipe
Location Boston, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°16′31″N 71°8′40″W / 42.27528°N 71.14444°W / 42.27528; -71.14444Coordinates: 42°16′31″N 71°8′40″W / 42.27528°N 71.14444°W / 42.27528; -71.14444
Built 1914
Architect Unknown
Architectural style No Style Listed
MPS Water Supply System of Metropolitan Boston MPS
NRHP Reference #

89002251

[1]
Added to NRHP January 18, 1990

Bellevue Standpipe is a historic water storage tank on Bellevue Hill at Washington Street and West Roxbury Parkway in the Stony Brook Reservation of Boston, Massachusetts. The masonry structure is 114 feet (35 m) tall and 47 feet (14 m) in diameter, built out of rough-cut granite blocks.[2] It was built by the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board (predecessor to today's MWRA) in 1914 to house a 2.5 million gallon steel water storage tank, as part of the Southern Extra High Service Area.[3] It received water from the Fisher Hill Reservoir in Brookline via a 20-inch main.[2] A second water storage tank was added at this location in 1955-56.[4]

The structure was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 "NRHP nomination for Bellevue Standpipe". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2015-09-06.
  3. ↑ Annual Report, Volume 17, Massachusetts. Metropolitan Water and Sewage Board
  4. ↑ RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PLAN DCR’s Stony Brook Reservation


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