Image: Chestnut Hill Pumping Station - HAER MA-24 - 076453pu

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
Title: Chestnut Hill Pumping Station - HAER MA-24 - 076453pu
Credit: Daderot
Author: Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), creator
Permission: Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse This image or media file contains material based on a work of a National Park Service employee, created as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, such work is in the public domain in the United States. See the NPS website and NPS copyright policy for more information. Creator: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Historic American Engineering Record. Survey number HAER MA-24 Source: U.S. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, "Built in America" Collection. Copyright: "The original measured drawings and most of the photographs and data pages in HABS/HAER/HALS were created for the U.S. Government and are considered to be in the public domain."
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