Madison Waterworks | |
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| Location | E. Gorham St. between N. Franklin and N. Hancock St.,Madison, Wisconsin |
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| Coordinates | 43°04′49″N89°22′59″W / 43.08028°N 89.38306°W /43.08028; -89.38306 (Madison Waterworks) |
| Area | 0.4 acres (0.16 ha) |
| Built | 1917 (1917) |
| Architect | Balch & Lippert |
| Architectural style | Prairie School |
| NRHP reference No. | 80000125[1] |
| Added to NRHP | August 18, 1980 |
Madison Waterworks, also known asNichols Station, is a historic building on East Gorham Street between North Franklin and North Hancock inMadison,Wisconsin. The building was built in 1917 as part of an effort to overhaul Madison's municipal water system; in addition to its new pumping station, the city also began supplying its water system fromLake Mendota rather thanartesian wells. To maintain the city's water supply during construction, the new pumping station was built around the original. Architects Balch & Lippert designed the building in a functional interpretation of thePrairie School style with mockturrets, aparapet along the roof, and severalgables. The city reused elements of the design in many of the later buildings it built for the water system. The building originally included twoAllis-Chalmers steam pumping engines, one of which still remained when the station was decommissioned in 1976; according to theHistoric American Engineering Record, it is a rare surviving example of a large steam pumping engine.[2]
The building was added to theNational Register of Historic Places on August 18, 1980.[1][3]
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