Dell Rapids Water Tower

Dell Rapids Water Tower
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	10th and Orleans, Dell Rapids, South Dakota
Coordinates	43°49′47″N 96°42′32″W / 43.82972°N 96.70889°WCoordinates: 43°49′47″N 96°42′32″W / 43.82972°N 96.70889°W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1894
NRHP Reference #	84003356[1]
Added to NRHP	February 23, 1984

The Dell Rapids Water Tower is a stone water tower located at 10th and Orleans Streets in Dell Rapids, South Dakota. The tower was built in 1894 to provide Dell Rapids with a civic water supply. The city decided to build the tower after an 1888 fire burned the south side of Main Street. The 45-foot (14 m) water tower is built with Sioux quartzite, a type of red-pink rock found in southern South Dakota, southwest Minnesota, and northwest Iowa. The tower provided water to Dell Rapids until 1960, when the city constructed a new tower. It is the only stone water tower remaining in South Dakota.^[2]

The tower was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 23, 1984.^[1]

References

1. Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
2. "Dell Rapids Granite Water Tower" (PDF). Archaeology & Historic Preservation Month 2013. South Dakota State Historical Society. Retrieved March 9, 2014.