Calf Pasture Pumping Station Complex

The Calf Pasture Pumping Station Complex is a historic sewage treatment facility at 435 Mount Vernon Street on Columbia Point in the Dorchester section of Boston, Massachusetts which was built in the 1880s.

[3] It still stands and in its time was a model for treating sewage and helping to promote cleaner and healthier urban living conditions.

It pumped waste to a remote treatment facility on Moon Island in Boston Harbor, and served as a model for other systems worldwide.

The pumping station is also architecturally significant as a Richardsonian Romanesque designed by the then Boston city architect, George Clough.

[5] In July 2021, UMass officials issued a request for proposal for the facility and the adjacent site.

Map showing all ground in Boston occupied by buildings in 1880. Columbia Point is in the center near bottom with two roads going out to the pumping station and calf pasture. From U.S. Census Bureau .