Shreveport Waterworks Pumping Station
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The Shreveport Waterworks Pumping Station, also known as the McNeil Street Pump Station, is a historic water pumping station at 142 North Common Street in Shreveport, Louisiana. Now hosting the Shreveport Water Works Museum, it exhibits in situ a century's worth of water pumping equipment, and was the nation's last steam-powered waterworks facility when it was shut down in 1980.
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Shreveport Waterworks Pumping Station | |
Location | 142 North Common Street, Shreveport, Louisiana |
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Coordinates | 32°31′04″N 93°45′26″W |
Area | 4 acres (1.6 ha) |
Built | 1887 |
NRHP reference No. | 80001707[1] |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | May 9, 1980 |
Designated NHL | December 17, 1982[2] |
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It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, declared a National Historic Landmark in 1982, and designated as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark in 1999.[2][3][4]