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Forbes Hill Standpipe

FieldValue
nameForbes Hill Standpipe
imageForbes Hill Standpipe Quincy MA.jpg
locationReservoir Rd., Quincy, Massachusetts
coordinates
locmapinMassachusetts#USA
built1900
addedJanuary 18, 1990
area1 acre
mpsub
refnum89002252

The Forbes Hill Standpipe is a historic water tower structure located on Reservoir Road in Quincy, Massachusetts, USA. The tower was built in 1899-1902 to contain a 330000 gal steel water tank. The site originally included an adjacent reservoir that supplied Quincy with water from the Metropolitan Boston Water System. The standpipe was taken out of service in 1955 and the reservoir was filled in.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

History

The tower was constructed by the Metropolitan Water Board (now the MWRA), after the City of Quincy joined the system in 1897. Dexter Brackett was the supervising engineer for the project. It is built from local Quincy granite, and is 30 ft in diameter and 64 ft in height. Although now closed to the public, the crenelated tower roof is accessible via a spiral staircase located between the steel tank and inside tower walls. The standpipe and reservoir were fed from the Chestnut Hill Reservoir. The adjacent rectangular reservoir measured 280 feet long by 100 feet wide at the bottom, with sloping concrete sides, and an average depth of 18 feet.

The Forbes Hill reservoir provided a reserve capacity of 5100000 gal, as part of the southern high-service system that fed Quincy, Milton and parts of nearby Dorchester. The Forbes Hill reservoir and standpipe were discontinued in the 1950s, after the construction of the Blue Hills Reservoir in the southern part of Quincy.

Radio equipment at the tower serves the Minuteman Repeater Association, a regional amateur radio club.

References

References

  1. {{NRISref. 2009a
  2. Massachusetts Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board: [https://books.google.com/books?id=el4PAQAAIAAJ&dq=forbes%20hill%20standpipe%20quincy&pg=PA76 Annual Report, Volume 14]
  3. [https://mhc-macris.net/details?mhcid=qui.928 MACRIS database]
  4. [https://mhc-macris.net/details?mhcid=qui.928 MACRIS database]
  5. C M Saville, [https://books.google.com/books?id=D2cZAQAAIAAJ&dq=forbes%20hill%20standpipe&pg=PA178 "The construction of a reservoir and standpipe on Forbed Hill, Quincy, Mass."], ''Journal of the New England Water Works Association'', volume '''16''', page 177
  6. [https://books.google.com/books?id=a14PAQAAIAAJ&dq=forbes%20hill%20standpipe&pg=PA40 Annual Report, Volume 13 By Massachusetts. Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board]
  7. [http://www.mwra.com/01news/2007/012907bluehills.htm Massachusetts Water Resources Authority BLUE HILLS COVERED STORAGE]
  8. "Minuteman Repeater Association".
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