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The Waterworks Museum is a museum in the Chestnut Hill Waterworks building, originally a high-service pumping station of the Boston Metropolitan Waterworks. [1] It contains well-preserved mechanical engineering devices in a Richardsonian Romanesque building.
The Waterworks Museum is located on the northern side of Table Mountain, between the Woodhead and Hely-Hutchinson Reservoirs, in Cape Town, South Africa. The museum was founded in 1972 by Terence Timoney, a retired waterworks engineer. [ 1 ]
Fairmount Water Works (foreground) and the Philadelphia Museum of Art (background) in February 2007. After the waterworks closed in 1909 the facility was used for several purposes, including the Philadelphia Aquarium, which closed in 1962, and an indoor swimming pool which closed in 1973. Attempts have been made to return the waterworks to its ...
Waterworks Museum may refer to: Metropolitan Waterworks Museum in Boston, Massachusetts; Waterworks Museum (Cape Town), in South Africa; Water Supply Museum, in ...
Unknown to residents at the time, the lack of a safe water supply presented a significant health risk to the city. After the arrival of the second cholera pandemic in the United States (1832), Louisville in the 1830s and 40s gained the nickname "graveyard of the west", due to the polluted local water giving Louisville residents cholera and typhoid at epidemic levels.
Waterworks Museum. The grade II* listed Broomy Hill pumping station was built in 1856. [6] Since 1974 it has been the Waterworks Museum, Hereford, operated as a ...
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Louisville WaterWorks Museum opened in the west wing of a renovated and restored interior of Pumping Station No. 1 on Zorn Avenue at 3005 River Road in Louisville, Kentucky overlooking the Ohio River. The building was constructed from 1858 until 1860 as part of Louisville's original water works. It was listed as a National Historic Landmark in ...