[1] It was built by the Des Moines Bridge Building Company as part of the first waterworks and sewer system in Forsyth, funded by a 1906 bond of $50,000.

It was deemed "significant as the last surviving remnant of Forsyth's earliest publicly-financed public works project.

In turn, the early water system of which this was a part was an important reason behind the incorporation of the community of Forsyth.

The building's design, simple and solid, is a good example of largely unadorned early twentieth-century industrial architecture.

Its brick construction, locally unusual, is an indication of the substantive nature of Forsyth's first waterworks project.