Metropolitan Waterworks Museum
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The Waterworks Museum is a museum in the Chestnut Hill Waterworks building, originally a high-service pumping station of the Boston Metropolitan Waterworks. It contains well-preserved mechanical engineering devices in a Richardsonian Romanesque building. During its busiest years, the waterworks pumped as much as a hundred million gallons of water each day. : 125 The station was decommissioned in the 1970s, and later some of its buildings were turned into condominiums. After a period of disuse, the pumping station was restored, and in 2007 the Waterworks Preservation Trust was set up to oversee its conversion into a museum. In March 2011, the building reopened to the public as the Waterworks Museum.
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| Arnold Arboretum (2.5 miles) Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (2.9 miles) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (3.2 miles) Boston Citgo sign (3.3 miles) Harvard Bridge (3.6 miles) | Harvard Museum of Natural History (3.8 miles) Boston Marathon Finish Line (4.1 miles) Boston Public Library (4.1 miles) Longfellow Bridge (4.6 miles) Boston Public Garden (4.6 miles) |
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Metropolitan Waterworks Museum, 2450 Beacon St
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467
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