…Old Croton Aqueduct, National Register of Historic Places (1974) 4. Old Croton Aqueduct running from Croton to New York City, National Historic Landmark in (1992) 5. The High Bridge Aqueduct and Water Tower, National Register of Historic Places (1972) 6…

…1890s Contemporary print from original glass plate negative The Hudson River Museum of Westchester Gloeckner Newby Co., New Croton Dam, 1912 Photograph; 2V2X 9V2 Inches Collection of ESL Information Services, Engineering Societies' Library, New York, NY The New Aqueduct Passing…

…Farley The Old Croton aqueduct Rural Resources Meet Urban Needs The Hudson River Museum of Westchester Yonkers, New York 1992 Xhi s One 7WXT-: 5F-QFG4 figure 2: Fayette B. Tower, View above the Dam, in Illustrations of the Croton…

…Spillway of the New Croton Dam History of the Croton Waterworks 16 Aqueduct was taken offline in 1955. The New Croton Aqueduct is still capable of providing New York City with between 10 and 30 percent of its fresh water…

…Government establishes National Heritage Areas New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation purchases 26.2 miles (in Westchester County) of original 41-mile Old Croton Aqueduct from New York City M. Paul Friedberg designs Delacorte Fountain for…

…The length of aqueduct from the Croton dam to the distributing reser- voir is 40.562 miles — to wit: ^ Masonry conduit in Westchester county 32.880 [Ditto ditto] on New-York Island 4.187 Total Length 37.067 Receiving reservoir…

…O Old Croton Aqueduct: Opened on October 14, 1842, as a forty-one-mile-long aqueduct bringing water to New York City from the Croton River in Westchester County; Became a National Historic Landmark in 1992. Old Croton Aqueduct State…

…Description of the New York Croton Aquedua in English, German and French. New York and Berlin: printed by Mundt, 1846. Society for Industrial Archaeology. Newsletter, vol. V, no.l (Jan. 1976). Tower, Fayette B. Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct. New…

…Type Significance(s) Interpretation Structure Guide 179TH STREET HIGH SERVICE WORKS 1894 (Demolished) Plate 29B-, New Croton Aqueduct Appendix 135TH STREET GATEHOUSE 1884-1890 (Adaptive Reuse - Harlem Stage) Plate 30-12, Old/ New Croton Aqueduct Sign For more information, see…

great acclamation from the citizens of New York City. The High Bridge was not completed until 1848. Notes 1. Charles King, A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct (New York, 1843), p.220. 2. See…

…The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation maintains the Old Croton Aqueduct State Historic Park, which is a linear park running along twenty-six miles of the Old Croton Aqueduct’s path. In New York City…

…Tower's book Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct (1843), implied that the Aqueduct, while bringing New York City the necessary water to grow into a teaming metropolis, fit harmoniously into pastoral ideals of the landscape and, in fact, enhanced it…

…Jr., View of Croton Dam. engraved by Henry Jordan & Frederick Halpin, frontispiece from Charles King's A Memoir of the Construction, Costs and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct .... New York. 1843 The Hudson River Museum of Westchester, Gift of John…

…Created by the New York State legislature in 1905 to replace the Board of Aqueduct Commissioners. Croton Aqueduct Board: Superseded the State Water Commission; The first board was established in 1833 with the task of providing New York City with…

…When additional water was needed for New York, a sec- ond Croton Dam was built, which flooded Jervis' original. Although intact underwater, it no longer functions as designed. Ventilators and tunnels Since the Aqueduct was to be completely enclosed to…

…Croton Lake, wood engraving in "From Croton to Town," Harpcr'i Magazine, July 6. 1872 Courtesy Dobbs Ferry Historical Society (not in exhibition) Photo: J. Kennedy this land by 1837, received $4,000 from the Water Commissioners for the Aqueduct…

…Typologies Shafts Shafts are a building typology introduced to the New Croton Aqueduct conduit. These structures filled the niche of the Old Croton Aqueduct’s ventilators in providing circulation to the water underneath. More importantly, they also provided access for…

…Hobart and William Smith College, Geneva, New York. Jervis, John B. MSB. Jen/is Public Library, Rome, New York. King, Charles. A Memoir of the Construction, Cost, and Capacity of the Croton Aqueduct. New York: Charles King, 1843. Lart^in…

…Characters were also added to the final versions of Aqueduct Bridge for Roadway, also engraved by Bennett, and Croton Aqueduct at Jewell's Brook, engraved by John William Hill. "I gain information and pleasure by talking with the artists who…

…This expansion culminated in the construction of the New Croton Aqueduct in 1891, which involved not only the usual condemnations but de- struction of the original village of Katonah (figure 43). In sum, the old Croton Aqueduct had initiated a…

A dam was built at the aqueduct's head to create a reservoir fountain. A major flood in early 1841 destroyed the original dam, filling Croton Bay with earth and gravel. The dam was rebuilt at greater altitude, creating a…

…Old Croton Aqueduct, OMB number 1024-0018 (This designation includes the submerged portion of the Aqueduct between the Old and New Croton Dams, as well as the Bronx portion of the Aqueduct running from Westchester to the Manhattan end of…

…IMAGINING THE AQUEDUCT J. F. Atwili, publisher, New York, Croton Water Celebration (City Hall Park), 1842. In pencil: "Aster House — Park Theatre/Croton Water Celebration, 1842" Lithographed music title for "The Croton Ode"; SVtx 12V'' inches The J. Clarence Davies…

…emerged as the new champion of the Croton River as a water source. He suggested two possible routes to get Croton water to the City, one along the Hudson and one inland, and favored a masonry aqueduct tunnel. The cost…

…The aqueduct which conveys the water from Croton Lake to New York city, forms a bridge over Saw-mill river at Yonkers. In the county twenty-five streams cross the line of the Croton aqueduct, which are from twelve to…