[MassHistPres] Talk on Boston's architectural history, Waterworks Museum, Dec. 2 at 7pm

[Suanna Selby Crowley]

Passing on an announcement for a public event tonight. The Metropolitan Waterworks Museum is hosting Dennis De Witt for a talk on the architectural history of Boston’s waterworks system. The presentation, “Fantastic Water Towers: An 1893 Design Competition Juried by Edmund March Wheelwright” will take place this evening, December 2 at 7pm at the Waterworks. The talk will examine the legacy of Wheelwright, one of Boston’s early City Architects and the designer of the Waterworks’ expansion in 1897-1898. Mr. De Witt will show and discuss the designs for these civic monument/water towers and the surprising later careers of some of their designers. 

The talk is free and open to the public. The museum is located at 2450 Beacon Street, Boston, opposite the Chestnut Hill Reservoir near the Boston College campus. There is limited parking, but the museum is accessible by T and MBTA bus. For more information on the museum and specific directions, please visit www.WaterworksMuseum.org <http://www.waterworksmuseum.org/> or call (617) 277-0065.

Suanna Selby Crowley, PhD, RPA
Medford Historical Commission
Suanna at AnthroScienceAdvisors.com

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