Built in 1901 by the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC), it is one of Stoneham's finest examples of Renaissance Revival architecture.

In the 1890s it was made a centerpiece of the Middlesex Fells Reservation, and about 1900 its water supply function was taken over by the MDC.

This Romanesque Revival building was designed by Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge and completed in 1901, as part of a general expansion of water service in the area, and was placed on the former summer estate of Charles Copeland.

Spot Pond has been relegated to emergency service by the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, successor to the MDC.

The pumping station now delivers water to area communities from a covered tank elsewhere in the reservation.