Mystic Water Works

Mystic Water Works, Mystic Pumping Station
The water works in 2009
Location Somerville, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°24′54″N 71°7′52″W / 42.41500°N 71.13111°WCoordinates: 42°24′54″N 71°7′52″W / 42.41500°N 71.13111°W
Built 1863
Architect Unknown
Architectural style Romanesque
Governing body Local
MPS City of Somerville MPS, Water Supply System of Metropolitan Boston MPS
NRHP Reference # 89001227,89002255
Added to NRHP September 18, 1989 and January 18, 1990[1]

The Mystic Water Works, also called the Mystic Pumping Station, is a historic water works at Alewife Brook Parkway and Capen Street in Somerville, Massachusetts. It was a large brick single story building, built in a Romanesque Revival style with a mansard roof. The building was built by the city of Charlestown as part of its initiative to dam the Mystic Lakes to provide it with water. Somerville was also allowed to tap into the lines, and the building thus became part of Somerville's first municipal water supply. When Charlestown became part of Boston in the 1880s the building was taken over by the Metropolitan District Commission.[2] The building is now unused, and belongs to the city.

The building has been listed twice on the National Register of Historic Places. The first, in 1989, is part of the city of Somerville's listings, and was made under the name "Mystic Water Works". The second is part of an umbrella listing covering the entire historic water works system of Greater Boston, and was made in 1990, listed as the "Mystic Pumping Station".[1]

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2008-04-15.
  2. ↑ "NRHP nomination for Mystic Pumping Station". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-03-04.