{"nrhp_refnum":"82003419","name":"Yonkers Water Works","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Saw Mill River and Grassy Sprain Rds., and Gilmare Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Yonkers","county":"Westchester County","state":"NY","lat":40.95674074100006,"lon":-73.85787557515852,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-07-21","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A group of three surviving buildings from the municipal water system of Yonkers, Westchester County, New York: the Tuckahoe Road Pump Station and the Grassy Sprain Reservoir gate house (both 1876) and the Tubewell Station (1898, with a 1922 addition).","why_significant":"The buildings are the surviving early structures of the first public water system in Westchester County. They are built in a High Victorian brick style and keep their nineteenth-century character. They are presented as symbols of the growth of Yonkers, the county's largest city, in the late 1800s.","narrative":"Three brick buildings preserve the early story of Yonkers' municipal water supply, the first public system in Westchester County. A disastrous fire in 1869 exposed the weakness of relying on rivers and cisterns, and voters and officials then moved toward a city system, begun in 1873. The Tuckahoe Road Pump Station, finished in 1876, has a hipped slate roof, round-arched windows and a brick medallion bearing its completion year. Its steam machinery has since been replaced by electric pumps and diesel engines. The Grassy Sprain Reservoir gate house, also from 1876, sits on a granite foundation near the dam and holds four control gates. It is no longer in use. The Tubewell Station, built in 1898 with a 1922 addition, was designed by architect A. F. Jennings of New York and used red brick with stone trim. Only the Tuckahoe Road station still pumps water, yet all three keep their High Victorian character and mark the city's nineteenth-century growth.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Listed as Unknown on the form; the text names A. F. Jennings (architect) and R. L. Steward (builder) for the 1898 Tubewell pump house, and Cullen and Lawrence as contractors for the 1876 engine house.","architectural_style":"High Victorian","criteria":[],"status_note":"Only the Tuckahoe Road station still serves its original pumping function. The Grassy Sprain gate house is no longer in use. The Tubewell Station now holds city office space, storage and a truck repair garage, with its machinery kept as a back-up.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:41.36328-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/82003419.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003419/db81c90329-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82003419/db81c90329-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Magicpiano","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:YonkersNY_WaterWorks_PumpingStation.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Magicpiano</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:YonkersNY_WaterWorks_PumpingStation.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75323316","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yonkers_Water_Works","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8055096"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/westchester-county/yonkers-water-works-82003419/"}