Shreveport Waterworks Pumping Station

Shreveport Waterworks Pumping Station
McNeil Street Pumping Station
Shreveport Waterworks Pumping Station is located in Shreveport Downtown
Shreveport Waterworks Pumping Station
Location142 North Common Street, Shreveport, Louisiana
Coordinates32°31′04″N 93°45′26″W / 32.51769°N 93.7571°W / 32.51769; -93.7571
Area4 acres (1.6 ha)
Built1887
NRHP reference No.80001707[1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPMay 9, 1980
Designated NHLDecember 17, 1982[2]

The Shreveport Waterworks Pumping Station, also known as the McNeil Street Pump Station, is a historic water pumping station at 142 North Common Street in Shreveport, Louisiana. Now hosting the Shreveport Water Works Museum, it exhibits in situ a century's worth of water pumping equipment, and was the nation's last steam-powered waterworks facility when it was shut down in 1980.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, declared a National Historic Landmark in 1982, and designated as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark in 1999.[2][3][4]

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ a b "Shreveport Waterworks Pumping Station". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Archived from the original on March 8, 2011. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
  3. ^ James W. Sheire (n.d.). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Shreveport Water Works, Pump Station / McNeil Street Pump Station". National Park Service. Retrieved April 17, 2018. With eight photos from 1979.
  4. ^ "McNeil Receives Historic Distinction". The Times. Shreveport, Louisiana. August 5, 1999. p. 50.