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Waterworks - Brick and Mortar Materials
Fort Collins, Colorado

  
Fort Collins Waterworks, 2002

The Poudre Landmarks Foundation requested that the Architectural Preservation Institute provide mortar analysis, water absorption rates, and a history of the brick materials used in the construction of the Fort Collins Water works plant, built in 1882 -1883 and doubled in size from 1894 - 1895.

In an era of terrifying water-born diseases, the waterworks played a pivotal role in the growth of the town of Fort Collins into a thriving regional metropolitan center.

Fort Collins Waterworks between 1910 and 1920 - includes the dam, canal and stream

Photographs of the Waterworks building in 2002 by Tom Boardman. Photograph of the Waterworks area between 1920-1930 by Lewis Charles McClure and courtesy of the Denver Public Library Western History Department.