{"id":1654,"date":"2024-04-26T20:11:47","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T20:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kevinforsyth.net\/ELMAC\/?p=1654"},"modified":"2024-04-26T20:11:47","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T20:11:47","slug":"orchard-street-pumphouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinforsyth.net\/ELMAC\/orchard-street-pumphouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Orchard Street Pumphouse, 368 Orchard St. (1934)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Orchard Street Pumphouse, November 2003. Photo by Kevin S. Forsyth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This quaint neo-colonial building, designed by local architect Harold A. Childs<\/a>, was constructed to provide water service to the Strathmore<\/a> subdivision. It sheltered a well and water pumps, and a large water tower once stood on the triangular green to the east. The tower has since been removed, and the green is now a city park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The well continues to produce a good supply of raw water for the city\u2019s water treatment plant, and a portion of the building still serves in its original role as a pumphouse. The remaining interior space is used as a community center and serves a wide variety of interests. The pumphouse and adjacent park are owned by the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aerial view of East Lansing facing northeast, circa 1937. The\u00a0Union<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Home Economics<\/a>\u00a0are in the foreground, and the\u00a0Masonic Temple<\/a>\u00a0may be discerned toward the middle left. At top center is the dark mass of the water tower with the Orchard Street Pumphouse at its base. Ten years after its platting, broad swathes of\u00a0Strathmore<\/a>\u00a0remain to be developed. Image reprinted in College Bulletin 31(13),\u00a0Beside the Winding Cedar<\/em>\u00a0(1937),\u00a0available online<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Orchard Street Pumphouse is listed on the state historic register and is an East Lansing Landmark Structure<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This quaint neo-colonial building, designed by local architect Harold A. Childs, was constructed to provide water service to the Strathmore subdivision. It sheltered a well and water pumps, and a large water tower once stood on the triangular green to the east. The tower has since been removed, and the green is now a city park. The well […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landmark-structures"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinforsyth.net\/ELMAC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinforsyth.net\/ELMAC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinforsyth.net\/ELMAC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinforsyth.net\/ELMAC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinforsyth.net\/ELMAC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinforsyth.net\/ELMAC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1658,"href":"https:\/\/kevinforsyth.net\/ELMAC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654\/revisions\/1658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinforsyth.net\/ELMAC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinforsyth.net\/ELMAC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinforsyth.net\/ELMAC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}