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A February 2012 Star Ledger article suggested a water tower in Erwin, North Carolina completed in early 2012, [2] 219.75 ft (66.98 m) tall and holding 500,000 US gallons (1,900 m 3), [11] had become the World's Tallest Water Sphere. However photographs of the Erwin water tower revealed the new tower to be a water spheroid.
Peachoid. The Peachoid is a 135 foot (41 m) tall water tower in Gaffney, South Carolina, U.S., that resembles a peach. [1] The water tower holds one million U.S. gallons (3.78541 million litres) of water and is located off Peachoid Road by Interstate 85 between exits 90 and 92 (near the Cherokee Foothills Scenic Highway). Usually referred to by ...
November 11, 1971. 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. [2][non-primary source needed] Both the actual water tower and its pumping station are a designated National Historic ...
A water tower is an elevated structure [1] supporting a water tank constructed at a height sufficient to pressurize a distribution system for potable water, and to provide emergency storage for fire protection. [2] Water towers often operate in conjunction with underground or surface service reservoirs, which store treated water close to where ...
Stratosphere Tower: 350.2 m (1149 ft) 1996 Concrete Las Vegas, Nevada: Tallest observation tower in the United States. 2 Tower of the Americas: 228.6 m (750 ft) 1968 Concrete San Antonio, Texas: Built as the theme structure for San Antonio's World's Fair, HemisFair '68. It was the tallest observation tower in the United States from 1968 until ...
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.
02000847. Added to NRHP. 2002. The Brooks Catsup Bottle water tower, trademarked "The World's Largest Catsup Bottle", is a water tower south of Collinsville, Illinois. It is claimed to be the largest catsup bottle in the world at 70 feet tall on a 100 foot stand with a volume of 100,000 gallons, which could theoretically hold 640,000 bottles of ...
The Anderson Street Water Tower, also known as the Water Tower House, Sunset Beach Water Tower, or Pacific Coast Highway Water Tower, is a historic 87 ft (27 m) water tower in Seal Beach, California. Built in 1892, the redwood and fir structure has since been converted into a house. It is currently owned by Gregg and Mary DeNicola, who bought ...