Bissell Street Water Tower - Wikipedia
Bissell Street Water Tower (also known as the "New Red" tower) is a historic standpipe water tower located at the junction of Bissell Street and Blair Avenue in St. Louis, Missouri. The …
Bissell Street Water Tower - City of St. Louis, MO
Built in 1885, the Bissell Street Water Tower, also called the "Red" Water Tower, was designed by William S. Eames in the form of a Moorish Minaret. The tower stands 206 feet high and is …
Red Water Tower, Blair & Bissell Streets, Saint Louis, Independent City ...
- Significance: The Tower was constructed as part of the first modern and comprehensive water distribution system in the City of St. Louis. This system aided the city's physical expansion due …
College Hill, St. Louis - Wikipedia
Another water tower landmark in the area is the Red Water Tower or Bissell Tower. The 206-foot (63 m) high tower was built in 1887 at a cost of $79,789, and designed by architect William S. …
Bissell Water Tower - RACSTL
The Bissell “New Red” Water Tower was built in 1885-86 from design plans by Deputy Building Commissioner William S. Eames, a founder of the St. Louis chapter of the American Institute …
St. Louis Historic Preservation
The Bissell ("New Red") Tower, the Grand ("Old White") Tower, and the Compton Hills Tower, are three of seven remaining water towers in the country. Once there were 500. Built in 1885 …
Water tower - Wikipedia
A water tower is an elevated structure [1] supporting a water tank constructed at a height sufficient to pressurize a distribution system for potable water, and to provide emergency storage for fire …
The St. Louis Water Towers - Distilled History
2017年4月13日 · Completed in 1886, the Bissell Street Water Tower (or “Red” Tower as it is commonly called) was designed by William S. Eames, the deputy commissioner of public …
What are those stone towers in St. Louis? | STLPR
2018年11月16日 · Before the three water towers were built in the late 1800s, St. Louis had a serious problem with its water supply: there was no way to regulate the pressure. And the …
The Red Tower, St. Louis, Missouri - Roadside America
Built as a way to equalize water pressure in the 1880s, the Red Tower is essentially just a pipe connected to the water main, jutting 194 feet straight up out of the ground, surrounded by a …