Elizabeth City Water Plant Explained

Elizabeth City Water Plant
Coordinates:36.3125°N -76.2253°W
Built:, c. 1935
Architect:William C. Olsen
Architecture:Mission/spanish Revival
Added:March 4, 1994
Refnum:94000082

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.[1]

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

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Tom Butchko. Elizabeth City Water Plant. National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory . September 1993. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office . 2015-02-01.