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The gatehouse was constructed at the Georgetown Reservoir to pump water into the four-mile long Washington City Tunnel that led to McMillan Reservoir, completed in 1902. [2] [3] A filtration system was constructed at McMillan in 1905 and this system improved the quality of city water. [3] [4] [5] Construction of the gatehouse began in 1899.
At the outlet of the Georgetown facility is a sluice gate building that controls the flow of water into Washington City Tunnel, which leads to the McMillan Reservoir. This structure, called the Georgetown Castle Gatehouse , was built by the Army (c. 1901) in the shape of a castle.
Castle Gatehouse, Washington Aqueduct; Clifton Park Valve House; Croton Aqueduct Gate House; F. Fisher Hill Reservoir; Framingham Reservoir No. 1 Dam and Gatehouse;
The Washington Aqueduct Dam, upstream of the Potomac River's Great Falls. The centerpiece of the Aqueduct is a 12-mile (19 km) pipeline that connects the system's dam at Great Falls with the Dalecarlia Reservoir on the border with Montgomery County, Maryland. Portions of the Aqueduct went online on January 3, 1859, and the full pipeline began ...
Castle Gatehouse, Washington Aqueduct; Central Heating Plant; Children's Country Home; D. D.C. Water Main Pumping Station; ... National Zoological Park (United States)
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Notable Neo-Gothic buildings include the Washington National Cathedral in Cathedral Heights, Immaculate Conception Church near Mount Vernon Square, the National Presbyterian Church in Cathedral Heights, St. Elizabeths Hospital near Congress Heights, Alban Towers on Embassy Row, and the Castle Gatehouse of the Washington Aqueduct near Foxhall ...
A gatehouse is a type of fortified gateway, an entry control point building, enclosing or accompanying a gateway for a town, religious house, castle, manor house, or other fortification building of importance. Gatehouses are typically the most heavily armed section of a fortification, to compensate for being structurally the weakest and the ...