Compton Hill Water Tower - St. Louis, Missouri
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N 38° 36.899 W 090° 14.344
15S E 740384 N 4277668
One of few surviving standpipe water towers in the U.S.
Waymark Code: WM12ANW
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 04/15/2020
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County of tower: St. Louis Independent City
Location of tower: S. Grand Blvd., Compton Hill Reservoir Water Tower, St. Louis
Architect: Harvey Ellis
Built: 1899
Architectural Style: Richardsonian-Romanesque
"The Compton Hi 11 Water Tower was designed by Harvey Ellis. a:
designer-draftsman in the employ of architect, George R. Mann
in St. Louis. The tower was constructed in 1897-1899. It is
located on the east side of South Grand Avenue, in Reservoir
Park, and faces, to the west, Shaw Avenue which terminates
at the intersection with Grand Avenue. The tower provides a
dramatic visual climax to Shaw Avenue.
"The tower exemplifies the work of Ellis, an inventive designer
in the Richardsonian-Romanesque tradition of the late nineteenth century. It is a robust design in limestone, buff brick,
and terracotta composed of three major elements: 1) a stone
foundation forming a podium for the shafts, proceeding to a
height of 34 feet; 2) two tangential shafts, one square in
plan, the second, smaller, and circular in plan, continuing
for the next 101 feet in height; 3) the terminus and roof
area, which is 44'1'' high, giving a total height of 179'1"" ~ NRHP Nomination Form