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Beaumont St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Water Tank (1875, restored 2012), Beaumont, Kansas, US. Although the use of elevated water storage tanks has existed since ancient times in various forms, the modern use of water towers for pressurized public water systems developed during the mid-19th century, as steam-pumping became more common, and better pipes that could handle higher pressures ...
A tankhouse (also spelled tank house or tank-house) is a water tower enclosed by siding. Tankhouses were part of a self-contained domestic water system supplying the house and garden, developed before the advent of electricity and municipal water mains. The system consisted of a windmill, a hand-dug well and the tankhouse.
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The tower is also rented out as a four-bedroom and four-bathroom house. The base of the tower contains a garage and a bedroom for a guard. [3] There is an elevator to the upper part of the water tower, which contains a sunset deck, secret bookshelf, hot tub, kitchen, aquarium family room, dining area, ballroom, bar, and 360° view of the surrounding area.
Water towers on the National Register of Historic Places (1 C, 12 P) Pages in category "Water towers in the United States" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
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Rooftop water towers atop apartment buildings on East 57th Street in New York City showing differing kinds of tank A highrise residential building with integrated water tank in Bremerhaven, Germany. A rooftop water tower is a variant of a water tower, consisting of a water container placed on the roof of a tall building.
The House in the Clouds is a water tower built to incorporate a residential home, in Thorpeness, Suffolk, England.The structure was built in 1923 to receive water pumped from Thorpeness Windmill, [1] [2] and was designed to improve the looks of the water tower, disguising its tank with the appearance of a weatherboarded building more in keeping with Thorpeness's mock Tudor and Jacobean style ...