Chestnut Hill High Service Station is built.

Architect: Arthur Vinal. Designed in the Richardsonian Romanesque Revival style (with the likeness of the faces of the architect and his wife on the exterior), it is located at 2450 Beacon Street. Part of the Chestnut Hill Waterworks complex, it replaces the Roxbury pumping station and allows water to be pumped over the high ridge of Boston’s western suburbs. An addition by Edmund March Wheelwright is built in 1897 and a Low Service Station is built in 1898.* The facility ceases operation in 1974 and the pipes are disconnected in 2006. The building reopens as museum in 2011.*