Cochituate Aqueduct, Brookline Reservoir Gatehouse, Boylston & Warren Streets, Brookline, Norfolk County, MA

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TITLE:
Cochituate Aqueduct, Brookline Reservoir Gatehouse, Boylston & Warren Streets, Brookline, Norfolk County, MA

CALL NUMBER:
HAER MASS,11-BROK,4-

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Photo(s): 2 (4 x 5 in.)
Data Page(s): 1 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 1

DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1968.

CREATOR:
Historic American Engineering Record, creator

NOTE:
Survey number HAER MA-32

Building/structure dates: 1848 initial construction

Significance: The Cochituate Aqueduct was Boston's first major water supply conduit. Completed in 1848, the 15-mile conduit from Lake Cochituate to the Brookline Reservoir was linked to cast iron pipes at this gatehouse. Of all the surviving structures on the aqueduct, the gatehouse was the most architecturally elaborate. Granite quoins, a heavy belt course, and a gable pediment frame the two-story street facade of the granite ashlar building.

SUBJECTS:
MASSACHUSETTS--Norfolk County--Brookline
stone buildings (granite)
water supply
gatehouses

COLLECTION:
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)

REPOSITORY:
Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGID:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.ma1216

CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s):
1. GENERAL VIEW SHOWING FRONT ELEVATION OF GATEHOUSE.
2. GENERAL VIEW OF GATEHOUSE ON RESERVIOR SIDE.

CONTROL #:
MA1216

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