East Boston Pumping Station, Chelsea Street at Chelsea Creek, Boston, Suffolk County, MA
Summary
Significance: The station's three horizontal triple expansion Corliss engines, built by Allis Company, Milwaukee, are the only surviving examples of this once popular engine.
Survey number: HAER MA-65
Building/structure dates: 1895 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1908 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1911 Subsequent Work
Tags
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Metropolitan Sewage Commission
Gray, Arthur F
Corliss Engines
Allis Company
Christianson, Justine, transmitter
Location
boston, 42.36133, -71.05652
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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