Ottawa Waterworks Building
Ottawa Waterworks Building | |
| File:Ottawa Waterworks Building, original building.jpg Front of the waterworks | |
| Location | 1035 E. 3rd St., Ottawa, Ohio |
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| Coordinates | 41°1′17″N 84°2′12″W / 41.02139°N 84.03667°W |
| Area | 3.5 acres (1.4 ha) |
| Built | 1904 |
| Architect | Board of Public Affairs for the Village of Ottawa |
| NRHP reference No. | 76001519[1] |
| Added to NRHP | September 13, 1976 |
The Ottawa Waterworks Building is a historic waterworks in eastern Ottawa, Ohio, United States. Built in 1904,[1] it is Putnam County's oldest water pumping facility; as the first significant water-related public works project in Ottawa, it enabled the creation of a municipal water system in the village. In its earliest years, the waterworks sheltered equipment used to pump water from municipal wells.[2] A single-story structure,[2] the Ottawa Waterworks Building is a brick structure, nine bays wide, which rests on a stone foundation. Protected by a roof of ceramic tiles, the building is decorated with stone and wooden elements.[3] The Waterworks Building served as Ottawa's primary water pumping facility for approximately seventy years, remaining active until a new waterworks was completed in the mid-1970s. Since that time, it has been used as storage for equipment and spare machinery for the water system.[2] In 1976, the Ottawa Waterworks Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[1] It qualified for inclusion both because of its architecture and because of its place in local history:[3] it was deemed a fine example of a local public works building, and its role as the area's first water pumping station has made it a leading example of the development of early twentieth-century Putnam County.[2] Today, the Waterworks Building lies in a municipal park.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Owen, Lorrie K., ed. Dictionary of Ohio Historic Places. Vol. 2. St. Clair Shores: Somerset, 1999, 1182.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Ottawa Waterworks Building, Ohio Historical Society, 2007. Accessed 2010-08-08.
- ↑ Park Board Archived 2011-06-07 at the Wayback Machine, Village of Ottawa, 2010. Accessed 2010-08-10.
External links
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- Industrial buildings completed in 1904
- Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Ohio
- Buildings and structures in Putnam County, Ohio
- National Register of Historic Places in Putnam County, Ohio
- Water supply infrastructure on the National Register of Historic Places
- Former pumping stations