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| Director | Eric Peterson |
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| Chairperson | Katherine Burton Jones |
| Owner | Metropolitan Waterworks Museum Inc. |
| Public transit access | Reservoir  or Chestnut Hill |
| Website | waterworksmuseum |
 Interactive map highlighting the location of the museum | |
| Location | 2450 Beacon Street, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, US |
| Coordinates | 42°19′54.088″N 71°9′20.329″W / 42.33169111°N 71.15564694°W |
| Architect | Arthur H. Vinal |
| Architectural style(s) | Richardsonian Romanesque |
| Official name | Chestnut Hill High Service Pumping Station |
| Designated | January 18, 1990 |
| Part of | Chestnut Hill Reservoir Historic District |
| Reference no. | 89002271 |
The Waterworks Museum is a museum in the Chestnut Hill Waterworks building, originally a high-service pumping station of the Boston Metropolitan Waterworks.[1] It contains well-preserved mechanical engineering devices in a Richardsonian Romanesque building.[2]
During its busiest years, the waterworks pumped as much as a hundred million gallons of water each day.[3]: 125 The station was decommissioned in the 1970s, and later some of its buildings were turned into condominiums.[4] After a period of disuse, the pumping station was restored, and in 2007 the Waterworks Preservation Trust was set up to oversee its conversion into a museum.[5] In March 2011, the building reopened to the public as the Waterworks Museum.[6]
- ^ Burkett, Meisha Hunter (18 October 2019). "Silent and Unseen: Stewardship of Water Infrastructural Heritage". Adaptive Strategies for Water Heritage: 20–39. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-00268-8_2. ISBN 978-3-030-00267-1.
The former Metropolitan Waterworks' high-service pumping station in Boston (originated by Arthur Vinal, 1885–1887 and expanded by Edmund Wheelwright, 1897–98) was recently opened as the Waterworks Museum.
- ^ Kempe, Marcis (June 2015). "The Metropolitan Waterworks Museum: Boston's Story of Water Works Villains, Heroes, and Machinery". American Water Works Association. 107 (6): 60–65. doi:10.5942/jawwa.2015.107.0090.
- ^ Olia, Maria (2019-05-01). No Access Boston: Beantown's Hidden Treasures, Haunts, and Forgotten Places. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9781493035946.
- ^ Beaulieu, Rebekah (2017). Financial Fundamentals for Historic House Museums. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 11 & 13. ISBN 9781538100325.
- ^ Angelo, Dana (2007). "Waterworks Museum Project Proposal" (PDF).
- ^ Rosenthal, Beryl (March 2013). "Metropolitan Waterworks Museum and Chestnut Hill Reservoir—Boston, Massachusetts". Journal of the New England Water Works Association. 127 (1): 66.