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East Boston Pumping Station, Chelsea Street at Chelsea Creek, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

East Boston Pumping Station, Chelsea Street at Chelsea Creek, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

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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

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Date

1969 - 1980
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Contributors

Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Metropolitan Sewage Commission
Gray, Arthur F
Corliss Engines
Allis Company
Christianson, Justine, transmitter
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