Louisville Water Tower, Louisville

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Louisville Water Tower

Zorn Avenue
Louisville KY United States

Status:	built
Construction Dates
Finished	1860

Building Uses

- mechanical

- showroom

Structural Types

- water tower

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Description
-Oldest ornamental water tower in the world

-added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971

-It was originally completed in 1860 out of a wood frame but was mostly destroyed by a tornado in 1890.

-ceased pumping operations in 1909

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