Office of City Engineer, Providence

Chemical Building, Field's Point Wastewater Treatment Facility

The Office of City Engineer of Providence, Rhode Island is an office that is credited with the design of a number of notable public works.

Its Chemical Building, for example, was built in 1900 and displays Late Victorian architecture.

A number of its works are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[1][2]

Works

Its works, all in Providence, include:

• Chemical Building, Fields Point Sewage Treatment Plant, Ernest St. at Fields Point, (Office of City Engineer,Providence), NRHP-listed[1]
• Ernest Street Sewage Pumping Station, Ernest and Ellis Sts., (Office of City Engineer,Providence), NRHP-listed[1]
• Reservoir Avenue Sewage Pumping Station, Reservoir and Pontiac Aves., (Office of City Engineer,Providence), NRHP-listed[1]
• Return Sludge Pumping Station, Fields Point Sewage Treatment Plant, Ernest St., (Office of City Engineer,Providence), NRHP-listed[1]
• Sludge Press House, Fields Point Sewage Treatment Plant, Ernest St. at Fields Point, (Office of City Engineer,Providence), NRHP-listed[1]
• Washington Park Sewage Pumping Station, Shipyard St., (Office of City Engineer,Providence), NRHP-listed[1]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Martha H. Bowers (September 1987). "National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Documentation: Historic and Architectural Resources of Providence (RI) 1636-present (The Making of a Metropolis 1865-1945; Public Works § Utilities; Sewage Treatment, 1895-1955)". National Park Service.