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Title: Section through the engine house of the Centre Square Water Works, Philadelphia
Description: Photomechanical reproduction of a mechanical drawing of a cross section of the pumping machinery for the waterworks, including the boiler and reservoirs, which when full were able to hold 17,660 gallons of water. Also includes smaller vignettes in the upper left and right corners showing the elevation and plan of the waterworks. The neo-classical style marble pump house was completed in 1800 after the designs of architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe, in the tree-lined public square at High (Market) and Broad streets. The city's first waterworks delivered water from the Schuylkill River to subscribers and city hydrants until 1815, when superseded by the Fairmount Waterworks. The pump house was razed in 1827.

Title: Centre Square Water Works postcards
Description: Depicts the neo-classical style marble pump house, completed in 1800 after the designs of architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe, in the tree-lined public square at High (Market) and Broad streets. The city's first waterworks delivered water from the Schuylkill River to subscribers and city hydrants until 1815, when superseded by the Fairmount Waterworks. The pump house was razed in 1827. Includes the Water Nymph and Bittern fountain sculpted in wood in 1809 by William Rush for the Centre Square Water Works, but later moved to the Fairmount Waterworks on the Schuylkill River., Divided backs., Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date: 1908
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department LCP postcards - Public utilities - [P.9049.31 - 32]

Title: Section through the engine house of the Centre Square Water Works, Philadelphia Building commenced 1799, commenced erecting the engine February 1800, started the engine to supply the city, January 21, 1801, supply from these works discontinued September 7, 1815, building taken down 1827
Description: Photomechanical reproduction of a mechanical drawing of a cross section of the pumping machinery for the waterworks, including the boiler and reservoirs, which when full were able to hold 17,660 gallons of water. Also includes smaller vignettes in the upper left and right corners showing the elevation and plan of the waterworks. The neo-classical style marble pump house was completed in 1800 after the designs of architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe, in the tree-lined public square at High (Market) and Broad streets. The city's first waterworks delivered water from the Schuylkill River to subscribers and city hydrants until 1815, when superseded by the Fairmount Waterworks. The pump house was razed in 1827., Includes scale of feet., Housed in a clamshell box., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., F.A. Wenderoth & Co., the partnership between Frederick A. Wenderoth and Abraham Hart, operated from 1328 Chestnut Street between 1872 and 1875.
Creator: Graff, Frederick, 1817-1890
Date: [ca. 1872]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Graff [P.9393]

Title: Section through the engine house of the Centre Square Water Works, Philadelphia Building commenced 1799, commenced erecting the engine February 1800, started the engine to supply the city, January 21, 1801, supply from these works discontinued September 7, 1815, building taken down 1827
Description: Photomechanical reproduction of a mechanical drawing of a cross section of the pumping machinery for the waterworks, including the boiler and reservoirs, which when full were able to hold 17,660 gallons of water. Also includes smaller vignettes in the upper left and right corners showing the elevation and plan of the waterworks. The neo-classical style marble pump house was completed in 1800 after the designs of architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe, in the tree-lined public square at High (Market) and Broad streets. The city's first waterworks delivered water from the Schuylkill River to subscribers and city hydrants until 1815, when superseded by the Fairmount Waterworks. The pump house was razed in 1827., Includes scale of feet., Housed in a clamshell box., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., F.A. Wenderoth & Co., the partnership between Frederick A. Wenderoth and Abraham Hart, operated from 1328 Chestnut Street between 1872 and 1875.
Creator: Graff, Frederick, 1817-1890
Date: [ca. 1872]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department albums - Graff [P.9393]

Title: The Water Works, in Centre Square Philadelphia
Description: View of the neo-classical style marble pump house, completed in 1800 after the designs of architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe, in the tree-lined public square at High (Market) and Broad streets. The city's first waterworks delivered water from the Schuylkill River to subscribers and city hydrants until 1815, when superseded by the Fairmount Waterworks. The pump house was razed in 1827. Depicts individuals using the grounds, including a boy rolling a hoop, and horse-drawn carts, wagons, and men on horse-back traveling the road in the background., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelmans's Birch's Views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 28.
Creator: W. Birch & Son
Date: [1800]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 28a/P.2276.64]

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