Metropolitan Waterworks Museum
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Metropolitan Waterworks Museum is a museum in Massachusetts, at a modelled elevation of 40 m. Single Tree Hill stands 100 m to the south-southeast, 0.6 miles off. The nearest named place is Chestnut Hill Reservation, a park 0.3 miles away. Revolutionary Heritage Byway passes 2.9 miles off.
The story
The Waterworks Museum is a museum in the Chestnut Hill Waterworks building, originally a high-service pumping station of the Boston Metropolitan Waterworks. It contains well-preserved mechanical engineering devices in a Richardsonian Romanesque building. During its busiest years, the waterworks pumped as much as a hundred million gallons of water each day. The station was decommissioned in the 1970s, and later some of its buildings were turned into condominiums. After a period of disuse, the pumping station was restored, and in 2007 the Waterworks Preservation Trust was set up to oversee its conversion into a museum. In March 2011, the building reopened to the public as the Waterworks Museum.
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Dates from 1888.
Wikidata Q73906704, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What to expect
- Fee
- No
- Step-free access
- Yes
How to reach it
- 2.9 mi off the Revolutionary Heritage Byway, National
- 5.3 mi off the Battle Road Scenic Byway, National
- 28.2 mi off the Essex Coastal Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Skywalk Observatory · 4 mi
- Sunset Ledge · 20 mi
- Lookout Point · 24 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Chestnut Hill Reservation: 0.3 mi
- Cassidy Playground: 0.3 mi
- Chestnut Hill Historic District: 0.3 mi
- Daniel W. Warren, Jr. Playground: 0.4 mi
- Old Chestnut Hill Historic District: 0.5 mi
- Chestnut Hill: 0.3 mi
- Single Tree Hill: 0.6 mi
- Fisher Hill: 0.8 mi
- Waban Hill: 1.1 mi
- Aspinwall Hill: 1.2 mi
- Longyear Museum: 0.6 mi
- McMullen Museum of Art: 0.7 mi
- Mary Baker Eddy Historic House: 1.0 mi
- International Paper Museum: 1.1 mi
- Durant-Kenrick House and Grounds: 1.6 mi
- Soldiers Monument: 0.6 mi
- Rabbi Joseph Shalom Memorial: 0.6 mi
- Aerosmith Apartment: 1.6 mi
- Soldiers Monument: 1.7 mi
- Joseph P. Golden Memorial: 1.8 mi
- Saint Ignatius Loyola: 0.7 mi
- Hamony Unity: 1.6 mi
- Ringer Park Tribute: 1.6 mi
- The Greening of Griggs: 1.6 mi
- Four Seasons Mural: 1.7 mi
- Euston Path Rock: 0.9 mi
- Old Deer Park Conservation Area: 1.1 mi
- Friedman Park: 1.3 mi
- Lost Pond Reservation: 1.4 mi
- Elgin Street Conservation Area: 1.5 mi
- Heartbreak Hill (Top/End): 1.2 mi
- Heartbreak Hill (Bottom/Start): 1.7 mi
- Piccadilly Square Chair: 2.0 mi
- Jamaica Pond Bench: 2.2 mi
- Sam Adams Boston Brewery Tour: 2.9 mi
- School Garden: 1.9 mi
- Penniman Road Community Garden: 1.9 mi
- Lawton Park Community Garden: 1.9 mi
- Jamaica Pond Park Rain Garden: 2.2 mi
- Jamaica Pond Park Rain Garden: 2.2 mi
- Crystal Lake Beach: 2.4 mi
- Tenean Beach: 6.4 mi
- Pleasure Bay Beach: 6.8 mi
- Nickerson Beach: 7.6 mi
- North Beach: 7.8 mi
- Lower Cliff: 1.0 mi
- Upper Cliff: 1.1 mi
- The Alcove: 1.1 mi
- Temple Overhangs: 1.1 mi
- Pusherman Wall: 1.2 mi
- Pine Knoll: 3.8 mi
- Oak Lea: 3.8 mi
- Nature's Pavilion: 4.0 mi
- Picnic Site 11: 6.2 mi
- Picnic Site 10: 6.2 mi
- Commissioners Landing: 4.6 mi
- Westwood Rest Area: 7.9 mi
- Interstate 95 Rest Area: 23.1 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (South Bound): 23.8 mi
- State Route 3 Parking Area Southbound: 24.2 mi
- Boathouse: 13.5 mi
- Keeper's Dwelling: 13.5 mi
- Oil Shed: 13.5 mi
- Rainshed: 13.6 mi
- Boston Light: 13.6 mi
- Quarry Spring: 7.7 mi
- Pakomet Spring: 9.6 mi
- Mystery Spring: 21.5 mi
- Cascade Falls: 8.8 mi
- Rock Falls: 12.0 mi
- Wamesit Falls: 21.8 mi
- Haywardville: 9.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 5.7 miles of Metropolitan Waterworks Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single Tree Hill | SSE 163° | 100 m | 0.6 mi |
| Waban Hill | WNW 300° | 98 m | 1.1 mi |
| Bellevue Hill | S 171° | 94 m | 3.9 mi |
| Bird's Hill | SW 222° | 92 m | 4.6 mi |
| Mount Walley | SSE 150° | 91 m | 1.9 mi |
| Wellington Hill | NNW 340° | 91 m | 5.2 mi |
| Bald Pate Hill | SSW 212° | 90 m | 2.2 mi |
| Green Hill | SSE 149° | 89 m | 2.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:49 | 18:20 | 18:57 |
| June solstice | 05:09 | 19:43 | 20:26 |
| September equinox | 06:33 | 18:07 | 18:44 |
| December solstice | 07:11 | 15:30 | 16:16 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 28 | 30 | 38 | 49 | 59 | 68 | 74 | 73 | 65 | 53 | 43 | 34 |
| Precip in | 3.9 | 3.6 | 4.5 | 4.3 | 3.6 | 4.2 | 3.5 | 3.7 | 4.0 | 5.0 | 4.0 | 5.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Jamaica Plain, 3 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/562583194
Day trips start here
- Boston/Allston-Brighton · 2 mi
- Brookline · 2 mi
- Boston/Fenway-Kenmore · 3 mi
- Boston/Jamaica Plain-Mission Hill · 3 mi
- Boston/Outer Neighborhoods · 3 mi
- Boston/Roxbury · 3 mi
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