Main Sewerage Pumping Station

ID: 1083 ~ Source: DC Preservation League Photo Repository

This file appears in: Main Sewerage Pumping Station: This facility is an example of a high-style public works project tied to the City Beautiful Movement.

This file appears in: Main Sewerage Pumping Station: This facility is an example of a high-style public works project tied to the City Beautiful Movement.

Main Sewerage Pumping Station: This facility is an example of a high-style public works project tied to the City Beautiful Movement.

By The DC Historic Sites team

Though the Main Sewerage Pumping Station was constructed between 1904 and 1907, it dates back to 1889, when the US President appointed a board of sanitary engineers to devise a plan for disposing of…