High Service Water Tower and Reservoir

[2] The reservoir was constructed in 1874–75 to provide the city's public water supply, with a gatehouse designed by Charles T. Emerson, a Lawrence architect.

The tower stands 157 feet (48 m) high, and is built out of red brick with granite trim.

It is Romanesque in its style, and was designed by George G. Adams, a noted local architect who had been taught by Emerson.

The standpipe inside the tower is of steel construction and is 102 feet (31 m) in height.

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High Service Water Tower (1896), also called Tower Hill Water Tower, a notable eyecatcher or folly , named an American Water Landmark in 1979 by the American Water Works Association .