Elizabeth City Water Plant

Elizabeth City Water Plant
Location N. end of Wilson St., 100 block, Elizabeth City, North Carolina
Coordinates 36°18′45″N 76°13′31″W / 36.31250°N 76.22528°W / 36.31250; -76.22528Coordinates: 36°18′45″N 76°13′31″W / 36.31250°N 76.22528°W / 36.31250; -76.22528
Area 10 acres (4.0 ha)
Built 1926 (1926), c. 1935
Architect Olsen, William C.
Architectural style Mission/spanish Revival
MPS Elizabeth City MPS
NRHP Reference # 94000082[1]
Added to NRHP March 4, 1994

Elizabeth City Water Plant is a historic municipal water plant located at Elizabeth City, Pasquotank County, North Carolina. The complex includes the contributing Elizabeth City Water Plant Building, Coagulation Basin (1926), Raw Water Pump House (c. 1935), the Circular Finished Water Reservoir (1926), and the Raw Water Reservoir (c. 1935). The Elizabeth City Water Plant Building is a Mission Revival style brick building sheathed in stucco and built in 1926. It consists of a projecting three-bay three-story central pavilion flanked on each side by identical two-story blocks. It is topped by a broad hipped roof covered by green clay tiles.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. Tom Butchko (September 1993). "Elizabeth City Water Plant" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-02-01.


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