Ottawa Waterworks Building

The Ottawa Waterworks Building is a historic waterworks in eastern Ottawa, Ohio, United States. Built in 1904,[1] it is Putnam County's oldest water pumping facility; as the first significant water-related public works project in Ottawa, it enabled the creation of a municipal water system in the village. In its earliest years, the waterworks sheltered equipment used to pump water from municipal wells.[2]

Ottawa Waterworks Building
Front of the waterworks
Location1035 E. 3rd St., Ottawa, Ohio
Coordinates41°1′17″N 84°2′12″W
Area3.5 acres (1.4 ha)
Built1904
ArchitectBoard of Public Affairs for the Village of Ottawa
NRHP reference No.76001519[1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 13, 1976

A single-story structure,[2] the Ottawa Waterworks Building is a brick structure, nine bays wide, which rests on a stone foundation. Protected by a roof of ceramic tiles, the building is decorated with stone and wooden elements.[3] The Waterworks Building served as Ottawa's primary water pumping facility for approximately seventy years, remaining active until a new waterworks was completed in the mid-1970s. Since that time, it has been used as storage for equipment and spare machinery for the water system.[2]

In 1976, the Ottawa Waterworks Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[1] It qualified for inclusion both because of its architecture and because of its place in local history:[3] it was deemed a fine example of a local public works building, and its role as the area's first water pumping station has made it a leading example of the development of early twentieth-century Putnam County.[2] Today, the Waterworks Building lies in a municipal park.[4]

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. Owen, Lorrie K., ed. Dictionary of Ohio Historic Places. Vol. 2. St. Clair Shores: Somerset, 1999, 1182.
  3. Ottawa Waterworks Building, Ohio Historical Society, 2007. Accessed 2010-08-08.
  4. Park Board Archived 2011-06-07 at the Wayback Machine, Village of Ottawa, 2010. Accessed 2010-08-10.

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