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Waterworks Museum

By adamg - 5/29/24 - 8:14 am
The Chestnut Hill pumping station in question in 1893

1893 MDC photo of the pumping station, including the smokestack. Source.

The Boston Landmarks Commission agreed yesterday with the owners of one of the 19th-century pumping stations across from the Chestnut Hill Reservoir that its crumbling 150-foot smokestack needs to be taken down before it collapses, either spontaneously or in even a mild earthquake. Read more.

By adamg - 5/26/11 - 9:37 am

Water gauges

Photographynatalya takes us on an online tour of the new Waterworks Museum in Chestnut Hill.

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