{"nrhp_refnum":"99001452","name":"Raleigh Water Works and E.B. Bain Water Treatment Plant","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1810 Fayetteville Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Raleigh","county":"Wake County","state":"NC","lat":35.75787018300008,"lon":-78.64220517499996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1999-11-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Engineering","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A municipal water supply complex on an approximately eight-acre lot at 1810 Fayetteville Road, south of downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, comprising an 1887 pump house, an 1887 filter house, storage reservoirs, and the 1939-1940 E.B. Bain Water Treatment Plant. The original works were built by the Raleigh Water Company beginning in 1887.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the complex is an important record of Raleigh's efforts to provide a public water supply from the late nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries, and that the 1940 plant was the city's first modern treatment system. It also argues the Art Moderne treatment plant is an outstanding example of designed utilitarian architecture produced under Public Works Administration sponsorship, with notable interior spaces.","narrative":"Beside Walnut Creek on Fayetteville Road south of downtown Raleigh, the complex began in 1887 when the Raleigh Water Company built a pump house, a filter house and a reservoir on land bought from Jesse A. Jones. Engineer Arthur Winslow designed the original system, which was completed in September 1887 and served the city for more than fifty years. In 1939 and 1940 the Public Works Administration helped fund a replacement plant at the same site, designed by Raleigh engineer William C. Olsen. Its Art Moderne head house has a cast stone frontispiece and fluted brick panels, and its operating floor is regarded as one of the finest interior spaces in the city. The plant was dedicated in June 1940 in honor of E. B. Bain, who managed the water works for decades. It was the city's first modern treatment system and the main source of treated water during the postwar growth that followed.","period_of_significance":"1887-1948","architect_builder":"Winslow, Arthur (Engineer); Olsen, William C. (Engineer); Guion, A.H. (Contractor)","architectural_style":"Late 19th Century American; Modern Movement/Art Deco","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Nomination notes the 1950s storage tank is noncontributing because of age and that the 1939-1940 plant was the sole source of treated water during the post-War boom; current condition is described as including a barbed wire fence and vacant, overgrown surroundings.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:41.370292-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/78/7225/47722578/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NC/99001452.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99001452/26399c4557-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/99001452/26399c4557-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Jmturner","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EB-Bain-Water-Treatment-Plant-20080321.jpeg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jmturner</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EB-Bain-Water-Treatment-Plant-20080321.jpeg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47722578","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raleigh_Water_Works_and_E.B._Bain_Water_Treatment_Plant","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24436306"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/north-carolina/wake-county/raleigh-water-works-and-e-b-bain-water-treatment-plant-99001452/"}