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Stoughton Water Works, Pumping Station, Central Street, 1700 Block, Stoughton

Stoughton Water Works, Pumping Station, Central Street, 1700 Block, Stoughton, Norfolk County, MA. Surveyed as HAER MASS,11-STOU,4-, with 1 photograph and a 159-word written history.

From the record

“This single story brick pumping station has round-arch openings, terra-cotta ornament, a slate roof with terra-cotta tiles, and a slated square ventilator cupola.”

Written record, HAER MASS,11-STOU,4- survey. Machine-read text.

surveyed by the federal HAER program as HAER MASS,11-STOU,4- · the record runs 159 words · one of 94 surveyed structures published for this county.

Sources: the survey record at the Library of Congress

Stoughton Water Works, Pumping Station, Central Street, 1700 Block, Stoughton, Norfolk County, MA, photograph filed with the federal survey

1 photograph from the federal survey record, Library of Congress.

Significance

85 words

Source document Quoted word for word from HAER MASS,11-STOU,4-. Not written, edited or summarised by this site.

This single story brick pumping station has round-arch openings, terra-cotta ornament, a slate roof with terra-cotta tiles, and a slated square ventilator cupola. The doorway ornament features terra-cotta fluted pilasters rising to peaks above the roof line; these pilasters are similar to those of the earlier plant at Canton. The Pumping Station is still in use, but the only remaining sign of the original equipment is a three gauge plaque reading "Knowles Steam Pump Works, Boston & N Y, Transmitted by: Monica E. Hawley, Historian,

In context

Stoughton, Massachusetts The place record: every map, photograph and survey of this town.
Norfolk County, Massachusetts 278 topographic sheets across the county.
Library of Congress record The original filed report, and the sheets the survey produced. Those published here appear above.

Also surveyed in Stoughton

4 records

The federal surveyors worked through Stoughton building by building. These are the other structures they measured and filed a report on, longest report first.

SheetStructure SurveyReport
New Haven Railroad Station, photograph filed with the federal surveyNew Haven Railroad StationHABS MASS,11-STOU,5-274 words
Boston & Providence Railroad, photograph filed with the federal surveyBoston & Providence RailroadHAER MASS,11-STOU,3-130 words
Samuel Atherton House, photograph filed with the federal surveySamuel Atherton HouseHABS MASS,11-STOU,2-44 words
Washington Hotel, photograph filed with the federal surveyWashington HotelHABS MASS,11-STOU,1-36 words

Provenance

  • Written history. Quoted verbatim from HAER MASS,11-STOU,4-. United States federal work, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Text capture. Machine-read from the scanned typescript filed with the survey, so spelling and spacing follow the original page.
  • How this page is made. Documentary passages are quoted from linked records; page labels and counts are clearly marked as presentation or calculations.