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The Louisville Water Tower, located east of downtown Louisville, Kentucky, near the riverfront, is the oldest ornamental water tower in the world, having been built before the more famous Chicago Water Tower.
In 1917, a report from the US government sanitary service called the Louisville water "almost perfect". [1] In 1957, the company added anthracite to the sand and gravel water-filtering mixture. [1] The original Louisville Water Tower and pumping station have been preserved and are listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1971. [2]
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 ...
Theodore Ransom Scowden (June 8, 1815, Pennsylvania – December 31, 1881, Cleveland, Ohio) [1] was an engineer and architect. [2] He designed the Louisville Water Tower [2] with his assistant Charles Hermany.
A standpipe is a water tower which is cylindrical (or nearly cylindrical) throughout its whole height, rather than an elevated tank on supports with a narrower pipe leading to and from the ground. Louisville Water Tower, one of the few remaining standpipe water towers in the United States. It was completed in 1860.
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View of Main Street, Louisville, in 1846. The history of Louisville, Kentucky spans nearly two-and-a-half centuries since its founding in the late 18th century. The geology of the Ohio River, with but a single series of rapids midway in its length from the confluence of the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers to its union with the Mississippi, made it inevitable that a town would grow on the site.