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Elizabeth City Water Plant

Coordinates: 36°18′45″N 76°13′31″W / 36.31250°N 76.22528°W / 36.31250; -76.22528
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Elizabeth City Water Plant
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Elizabeth City Water Plant is located in North Carolina
Elizabeth City Water Plant
Elizabeth City Water Plant is located in the United States
Elizabeth City Water Plant
LocationN. end of Wilson St., 100 block, Elizabeth City, North Carolina
Coordinates36°18′45″N 76°13′31″W / 36.31250°N 76.22528°W / 36.31250; -76.22528
Area10 acres (4.0 ha)
Built1926 (1926), c. 1935
ArchitectWilliam C. Olsen
Architectural styleMission/spanish Revival
MPSElizabeth City MPS
NRHP reference No.94000082[1]
Added to NRHPMarch 4, 1994

Elizabeth City Water Plant is a historic municipal water plant located at Elizabeth City, Pasquotank County, North Carolina. The complex includes the contributing Elizabeth City Water Plant Building, Coagulation Basin (1926), Raw Water Pump House (c. 1935), the Circular Finished Water Reservoir (1926), and the Raw Water Reservoir (c. 1935). The Elizabeth City Water Plant Building is a Mission Revival style brick building sheathed in stucco and built in 1926. It consists of a projecting three-bay three-story central pavilion flanked on each side by identical two-story blocks. It is topped by a broad hipped roof covered by green clay tiles.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Tom Butchko (September 1993). "Elizabeth City Water Plant" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2015-02-01.