The Neillsville Standpipe is located in
Neillsville, Wisconsin
Neillsville is a city in Clark County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 2,384 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat.
History
The Ojibwa were the earliest known residents of the Neillsville area.
The first settlers of Europe ...
.
History
The standpipe is located at the highest point in Neillsville and consists of a steel water tank made by the
Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Co.
The Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Company (originally the Des Moines Bridge and Iron Company), and often referred to as Pitt-Des Moines Steel or PDM was an American steel fabrication company. It operated from 1892 until approximately 2002 when it ...
encased in a
slip-form concrete tower built by Tierweiler Bros. of
Marshfield. It was added to the State Register of Historic Places in 2012 and to the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
the following year.
References
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Water towers on the National Register of Historic Places in Wisconsin
National Register of Historic Places in Clark County, Wisconsin
Infrastructure completed in 1926