Tide Water Pumping Station

Tide Water Pumping Station
Tide Water Pumping Station main building, December 2010
Location Southwestern corner of the junction of 900S and 300E, north of Coal City, Harrison Township, Clay County, Indiana
Coordinates 39°15′16″N 87°03′21″W / 39.25444°N 87.05583°W / 39.25444; -87.05583Coordinates: 39°15′16″N 87°03′21″W / 39.25444°N 87.05583°W / 39.25444; -87.05583
Area 12.5 acres (5.1 ha)
Built 1915 (1915)
Architectural style Queen Anne, No Style Listed
NRHP Reference # 99001076[1]
Added to NRHP September 3, 1999

Tide Water Pumping Station, also known as Benton Station and SOHIO Pumping Station, is a historic pumping station complex and national historic district located in Harrison Township, Clay County, Indiana. The complex includes the 1 1/2-story, brick gale roofed pump house (1915); frame warehouse; a metal shed; two Queen Anne style dwellings; a metal garage; a concrete sluice and bridges; and the remains of a tennis court, dam and pond, and buried pipes. It is one of 14 pumping stations built along a 546.16 mile oil pipeline built between Crawford County, Illinois and Rixford, Pennsylvania. The station closed about 1957.[2]:6, 8

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. "Indiana State Historic Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD)" (Searchable database). Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology. Retrieved 2015-08-01. Note: This includes Glory-June Grieff (October 1998). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Tide Water Pumping Station" (PDF). Retrieved 2015-09-01. and Accompanying photographs.


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