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Providence Sewage Treatment System, Ernest Street Pumping Station, Boiler House, Ernest Street & Allens Avenue, Providence, Providence County, RI

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Summary

Significance: As the power source for three steam engines which in turn powered sewage pumps, this structure was one of three integral elements in the Ernest Street sewage pumping station built in 1895-6 to convey sewage to Providence's Fields Point Plant for treatment.

Survey number: HAER RI-20-C

National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 88003103

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boiler houses riverside providence sewage treatment providence sewage treatment system ernest ernest street boiler house boiler house allens allens avenue providence county rhode island historic american engineering record photo ultra high resolution high resolution library of congress national register of historic places
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Date

1969 - 1980
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Historic American Engineering Record, creator
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Riverside ,  41.80307, -71.40142
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Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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