Driving to Boston we always pass the Chestnut Hill reservoir on the left and to the right there is this mysterious large, one could say castle like, building. It was always closed off but now we noticed that it is a museum. What a surprise to find this:
Huge engines, pumps, kettles, pipes, ducts etc now restored and shining quietly. An oil can is the only reminder of the important daily lubrication. These pumping engines worked from 1887 to 1970 to bring the water from the lakes and reservoirs from the west in Massachusetts into the water system of Greater Boston.
All is explained by small touch screens and in an entertaining video in which the head engineer
Mr. Desmond Fitzgerald (1846-1926) talks.
After our visit we walked around the building to marvel at the architecture and appreciate that this building could be saved and turned into a museum in which we are reminded what a luxury running clean water is.
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