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FORM F- STRUCTURE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION 80 BOYLSTON STREET BOSTON, MA 02116 Photo (3"x3" or 3"x5" black and white) Indicate address on back of photo. Staple to left side of form. Sketch Map: Draw map showing structure's location in relation to nearest cross streets, buildings and/or geographical features. Indicate all , buildings between inventoried property and nearest intersection. Indicate north. see aHached UTM REFERENCE 19/332680/4630160 USGS QUANDRANGLE Boston South, MA SCALE 1:25,000 225 DéC 0 5 1989 AREA MDC - TRA, MASS. FORM NO. 16-4 Town Quinc? Address Resenroir Road Name Foroes Hill Standpipe Ownership: MDC Public Private - Type of Structure (check one): . bridge canal dam fort gate kiln lighthouse pound powder house street tower tunnel wall windmilt other standoive -DESCRIPTION Date 1900-1902 Sourceletro. Water & Sewerage Bd.
Annual Report Ior 1902 Architect Engineer/Designer (if known): n/a Construction materíal steel, concrete, granit Alterations (with, dates) rebefvoir fillled, gatehouse demolished, area converted to park Condition Food Movedno Date Acreage C.one acra Setting residential neishbornoed adiacent to a park Recorded by Jane Carolan Organization Louis Berger & Associates Date January 1984; revised 1989 MDC - 1HA, MASS: NATIONAL REGISTER CRITERIA STATEMENT (1f applicable) The Forbes Ilill Standpipe is one of three vertical reservoirs (Bellevue #16-1; Forbes Hill #16-L; and Arlington #16-3,NR: 9-27-1985) built by the Metropolitan Water Board as part of their distribution system and in response to demands for increasing amounts of water as suburban populations expanded. the water board's committment to good design and sensitivity to the surrounding conmunity.
longer in service, the Forbes Hill Standpipe was an important component of the Metropolitan Water Board's in-town distribution system. The Forbes HillStandpipe possesses integrity of location (con ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE Describe important design features and evaluate in terms of other structures within the community. Located in a residential neighborhood, adjacent to a park, the original Forbes Hº11 complex consisted of a 3,000,000 gallon capacity rectangular reservoir with a wall: around it; a stone çatehouse with two chambers. The intale chamber was 11' x 3' with screens, a 30" sluice valve and a 12" drain valvc. The othor chamber measured 11' x 91 x6'. It vao used for discharge to the standnipe and had valves for controlling water to and from the reserroir.
Perhaps the most distinctive element of the complex and the only surviving element was the standpipe which was built of steel and enclosed with a granite tower which has a crenelated top with an observation deck (now closed to the public). The standpipe held 2,000,000 gallons of water and was 260! abov sea level. The complex was built by Beckwith and Quackenbush, Nohawk, New York under the direction of Dexter Brackett, Engineer of the Metropolitan Water Board Distribution Department. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE Explain historical importance of structure and how the structure relates io the development of the community. The Forbes Hill Reservoir and standpipe were built by the Metropolitan Water Board to supply the City of Quincy water after it joined the Water vystem in 1397. Pipes from Chestnut Hill (Area fed the Reservoir and standnipe, which then supplied the surrounding town bs gravity.
In 1895 the Board of Health recommended a standpipe with a canacity of 2,000,000 gallons. Board, howerer, determined almost 5,000,000 gallons were necessary which would require a leservoir in addition to a standpipe. In 1955, after a drowning, the reservoir, waich was not being used, filled in and the gatenouse demolished. The standpipe was taken out of service at the same tine. Annual Renort Metronolitan Water Board, 1898 Annua? Renort of Metronolitan Water and Severase Board, 1902, 1903 Structures of the Metropolitan Water Worlos, Pnotographs, Volume II, Metropolitan Water Board. Detailed Record 300%, Sections, 21-45, Section 22 8/85 INVENTORY FORM CONTINUATION SHEET MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, Boston Commnity : Quincy - * F04 W/e% Form No: 16-4 Property Name: Forbes Hill Standnine Indicate each item on inventory form which is being continued below.
MATIONAL PEGISTER CRITORIA: desirn, materials, workmanship and feeling and meets Criteria -C of the lational Register of Historic Places. The boundary of the Forbes Hill standpipe nomination is shown on the attached map, Southern High Sercie, Forbes Hill Reservoir and Section 21 of pipe lines, ca. 1902. Scale 100' = 1". The boundary includes only the standpipe and not tho land around it which is now parktland not owned br the MDC. Staple to Inventory form at bottom NºS Porm 109000 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet OMB Approvel No. 1024-0018 Section number _ Page Water Supply System of Metropolitan Boston MPS Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk and Worcester Counties, MASSACHUSETTS S.hataative Hevter COVER 1. Ashland Dam and Spillway L S6iL12. Framingham Reservoir No. 3 Dam and Beve Terton 3.
Framingham Reservoir No. 2 Dam and Gatehouse 4. Framingham Reservoir No. 1 Dam and Gatehouse 5. Hopkinton Dam and Spillway 6. Lake Cochituate Dam 7. Medford Pipe Bridge S:l/ 8. Middlesex Fells Reservoirs Historic District Subaitealiire Xeyten 9. Mystic Dam - Suj 10. Mystic Gatehouse Substatibiro Jorian 11. Mystic Pumping Station 12. Sudbury Aqueduct Linear District 13. Sudbury Dam Historic District 14. Weston Aqueduct Linear District 15. Fisher Hill Reservoir and Gatehouse 16. Forbes Hill Standpipe 17. Bellevue Standpipe 18. Chestnut Hill Reservoir Historic District L SLM: 19.
Marlborough Brook Filter Beds adostantiva Rorio, DATE LISTED Bett& Seizge r-18-90 selaeDye01-18-40 Buff Suze 01-18-90 Ohlnuzua1-15-90 AtomDyud1-18-90 AelaretSyud 1-18-90 selannDyes1-15-40 Xelanßyuel1-18-90 avye 01-18-90 ReloeeByuu 11840 01-18-90 AulaiByu1-1t 40 AenueBgu176+0 AelauByan1-1870 AelmeByu 11570 AulmusDye 1-18-90 AlecmAyun1-1840 Aelnueßyer +18-90 Parc egenins UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE TATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET REQUESTED ACTION: NOMINATION PROPERTY Forbes Hill Standpipe NAME: MULTIPLE Water Supply System of Metropolitan Boston MPS NAME: STATE & COUNTY: MASSACHUSETTS, Norfolk DATE RECEIVED: 12/05/89 DATE OF 16TH DAY: 1/04/90 DATE OF PENDING LIST: 12/19/89 DATE OF 45TH DAY: DATE OF WEEKLY LIST: REFERENCE NUMBER: 89002252 NOMINATOR: STATE REASONS FOR REVIEW: REQUEST: N SAMPLE: COMMENT WAIVER: N LACCEPT _RETURN ABSTRACT/SUMMARY COMMENTS: N SLR DRAFT: N NATIONAL: REJECT 1/18/90 DATE Iatered in the National Begister RECOM./CRITERIA REVIEWER DISCIPLINE DATE DOCUMENTATION see attached comments Y/N see attached SLR Y/N CLASSIFICATION count resource type STATE/FEDERAL AGENCY CERTIFICATION FUNCTION historic current DESCRIPTION architectural classification materials descriptive text SIGNIFICANCE Period Areas of Significance--Check and justify below Specific dates Builder/Architect Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) summary paragraph completeness clarity applicable criteria justification of areas checked relating significance to the resource context relationship of integrity to significance justification of exception other BIBLIOGRAPHY GEOGRAPHICAL DATA acreage UTMS verbal boundary description boundary justification ACCOMPANYING DOCUMENTATION/PRESENTATION sketch maps USGS maps OTHER COMMENTS photographs presentation Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Phone Signed Date MDC - TRA, MASS.
Foben Sill Stowdppe, Quinc Jane Carolan /Martha Bowrrs 198 Louis Berger Ass. Wato supply System of Metrepolitan B 3.8 10. Martha A Partridge. 35.04; 75.08 R.300.0 56Z1 Summit 275.07 062/ Pauline city of Quincy .."4 S. Bigelow 75./2 75.10 75.07 Avenue Johm fletcher g Charles R. Sherman. 75.09 75.18' 75.07' William Tyner. 75.31 Trustees of Wollaston Land Company 75.08 1 40.04 R.300.0 1.64 Commonw Standpipe ealth Filledin 1955" Massachusetts. Gate House f -R.300.0 Area,/397 Sq.ft. Fee, W.D.dated Feb.14,1902. Vol.7.p. 66. Forbes Hill Reservoir. Area, 227,589 Sq.ft. Taking in Fee, No.ll... *ldated June 21, 1897. .Deed June 24, 1897. Vol.2,p.174, 175. 471.24 Norfolk Deeds Vol.789, 2/425. 19/55 Roadway 117.16 -rommonwealth Forbes Hill Standpipe of lassachusetts Forbes Hill Reservoir, Southern High Service ! formerly and Section 21 of Pipe Lines, ca. 1902. R.E.and W.C.Forbes. Scale: 100' = 1".
7. 225.82 42R2 So. High Service Forbes Hill' Reservoir and Section 2lof Pipe Lines. 50 100 Quingyao 150 250 300 Scale, lin. =10oft. ACCESSION Nº B.4552 19- CASE. 331 DRAWER. NºIN DRAWER MDC - TRA, MASS. Land Plan No. 77 Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64500254