The Louisville Water Tower, located east of downtown Louisville, Kentucky, near the riverfront, is the oldest ornamental water tower in the world, having been built before the more famous Chicago Wate
View of the tower from Duffy's Landing in Jeffersonville, Indiana
Inscription upon the tower
The Indian, Autumn, Summer, and Flora
Mercury, the Danaide, and the Indian
The Fairmount Water Works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was Philadelphia's second municipal waterworks. Designed in 1812 by Frederick Graff and originally finished in 1815, it operated until 1909, wi
Louisville Water Tower
…Chicago Water Tower. Both the actual water tower and its pumping station are a designated National Historic Landmark for their architecture. As with the Fairmount Water Works of Philadelphia (designed 1812, built 1819–22), the industrial nature of its pumping station was disguised in the form of a Roman temple complex. In…
Fairmount Water Works and the east bank of the Schuylkill River in December 1984
Fairmount Water Works, Philadelphia, between 1860 and 1880
"Schuylkill Waterworks", 1835 engraving
Fairmount Water Works, Philadelphia, about 1874