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Boston Water Works, Fisher Hill Reservoir & Gatehouse, Fisher Avenue, Brookline

Boston Water Works, Fisher Hill Reservoir & Gatehouse, Fisher Avenue, Brookline, Norfolk County, MA. Surveyed as HAER MASS,11-BROK,3-, with 1 photograph and a 175-word written history.

From the record

“The Fisher Hill reservoir was built in to the designs of city architect Arthur Vinal, who also designed the High Service Pumping Station, a few hundred yards distant in Brighton, at the same time.”

Written record, HAER MASS,11-BROK,3- survey. Machine-read text.

surveyed by the federal HAER program as HAER MASS,11-BROK,3- · the record runs 175 words · one of 94 surveyed structures published for this county.

Sources: the survey record at the Library of Congress

Boston Water Works, Fisher Hill Reservoir & Gatehouse, Fisher Avenue, Brookline, Norfolk County, MA, photograph filed with the federal survey

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

Significance

97 words

Source document Quoted word for word from HAER MASS,11-BROK,3-. Not written, edited or summarised by this site.

The Fisher Hill reservoir was built in to the designs of city architect Arthur Vinal, who also designed the High Service Pumping Station, a few hundred yards distant in Brighton, at the same time. The reservoir was supplied from the new pumping station. The reservoir is rectangular in shape, 500 feet by 295 feet, and has a capacity of 15 million gallons. The gate chamber, approximately 27 feet square and 26 feet high, is of brick with trimmings of Longmeadow sandstone. Neither the reservoir nor the gatehouse is now in use. Transmitted by: Monica E. Hawley, Historian,

In context

Brookline, 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 Brookline

6 records

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

SheetStructure SurveyReport
Cochituate Aqueduct, photograph filed with the federal surveyCochituate AqueductHAER MASS,11-BROK,4-2,262 words
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Birthplace, photograph filed with the federal surveyJohn Fitzgerald Kennedy BirthplaceHABS MASS,11-BROK,7-338 words
Fairsted, photograph filed with the federal surveyFairstedHABS MASS,11-BROK,6-269 words
West End Street Railway, photograph filed with the federal surveyWest End Street RailwayHAER MASS,11-BROK,5-173 words
Lynch-O'Gorman House, photograph filed with the federal surveyLynch-O'Gorman HouseHABS MASS,11-BROK,8-28 words
Milestones GG & OOO, photograph filed with the federal surveyMilestones GG & OOOHABS MASS,11-BROK,2-26 words

Provenance

  • Written history. Quoted verbatim from HAER MASS,11-BROK,3-. 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.