Brilliant Pumping Station

1880/1903

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Brilliant Pumping Station
  • Title
  • Brilliant Pumping Station
  • Creator
  • Frederick T. Gretton
  • Identifier
  • MSP328.B001.F02.I01
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP328.B001.F02.I01
  • Description
  • The Brilliant Station, a primary pumping station and located on the southern bank of the Allegheny River, opposite Aspinwall, was built in 1879. In 1871 the Water Committee recommended the construction of a pumping station above Negley’s Run, the construction of a low reservoir on Brilliant Hill (Carnegie Lake), and a high-service reservoir at the head of Highland Avenue. Brilliant Hill Reservoir, although practically completed, was never used as a portion of the water-works system. In the 1870s, philanthropist Andrew Carnegie partially financed the creation of Lake Carnegie to be used as a halfway station for water being pumped out of the Allegheny River. The technology for holding water changed over the years and Lake Carnegie became a recreational lake instead. In 1932 the lake was cut in half to make room for the park's swimming pools, but it is still used for fishing during the summer.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Brilliant Pumping Station (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Water--Purification--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Allegheny River (Pa. and N.Y.)
  • Source
  • Frederick T. Gretton Photographs, 1857-1953, MSP 328, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Frederick T. Gretton Photographs
  • Rights Information
  • No Copyright - United States. The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information.
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