Shreveport Water Works Company, Pump Station

Off LA 3036, Shreveport, Louisiana. County/parish: Caddo.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 09, 1980. NRIS 80001707.

3 contributing buildings. 1 contributing structure.

Also known as:

  • McNeil Street Pump Sta
  • Shreveport Waterworks Pumping Station

From Wikipedia:

Shreveport Waterworks Pumping Station

The Shreveport Waterworks Pumping Station, also known as the McNeil Street Pump Station, is a historic water pumping station at 142 North Common Street in Shreveport, Louisiana. Now hosting the Shreveport Water Works Museum, it exhibits in situ a century's worth of water pumping equipment, and was the nation's last steam-powered waterworks facility when it was shut down in 1980.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, declared a National Historic Landmark in 1982, and designated as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark in 1999.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/73973185

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