File:Detail view northeast of facade of Armory Street Pump House. - Lake Whitney Water Filtration Plant, Armory Street Pumphouse, North side of Armory Street between Edgehill Road and HAER CT-186-B-5.tif

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Detail view northeast of facade of Armory Street Pump House. - Lake Whitney Water Filtration Plant, Armory Street Pumphouse, North side of Armory Street between Edgehill Road and Whitney Avenue, Hamden, New Haven County, CT
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Lavalley, M Pilar, transmitter
Elliot, Joseph, photographer
Grzywacz, Robert W, historian
Stewart, Robert C, historian
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Detail view northeast of facade of Armory Street Pump House. - Lake Whitney Water Filtration Plant, Armory Street Pumphouse, North side of Armory Street between Edgehill Road and Whitney Avenue, Hamden, New Haven County, CT
Depicted place Connecticut; New Haven County; Hamden
Date Documentation compiled after 1968
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HAER CT-186-B-5
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: This pump station represents a novel engineering solution to a problem. Reduced water supplies forced partial conversion to a more efficient pumping system. The station was originally built to supplement a water powered pumping system. The station was originally built to supplement a water powered pumping system. In 1899 it became the primary pumping facility. It is architecturally significant as an adaptation of the Italianate style to industrial use.
  • Survey number: HAER CT-186-B
  • Building/structure dates: 1870 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1934-1935 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ct0683.photos.195200p
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Object location41° 23′ 44.99″ N, 72° 53′ 49.99″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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