The Croton Distributing Reservoir , also known as the Murray Hill Reservoir , was an above-ground reservoir at 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue in the New York City borough of Manhattan . Covering 4-acre (16,000 m ) and holding 20 million US gallons (76,000 m ), it supplied the city with drinking water during the 19th century. Its massive 50-foot-high (15 m) granite walls, which presented a vaguely Egyptian-style facade , were 25 feet (7.6 m) thick. Atop the walls was a public promenade offering panoramic views; Edgar Allan Poe enjoyed walking there.
21-425: Croton Reservoir may refer to: Croton Distributing Reservoir , completed in 1842 and demolished in 1899 New Croton Reservoir , completed in 1905 and still in service Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Croton Reservoir . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
42-557: A farm and ran a lumber business. In October 1817 at the age of 22, Jervis was hired by Chief Engineer Benjamin Wright of the Erie Canal as an axeman in a survey party to locate the canal west of Rome, New York . The role of the axemen was to clear away brush and trees along a "trace" four feet wide.(Ibid.) In the spring of 1818, Jervis became a rodman until the canal was located from Rome to Montezuma on July 10, 1818. (Ibid.) By
63-699: The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad ), also serving as President of the latter from 1851 to 1854, and finally the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway . Jervis retired in 1864 to his homestead in Rome, but he continued to work actively in the area. In 1869, he helped form the Merchants Iron Mill, known today as the Rome Iron Mill in upstate New York. He was also the founder of
84-849: The Croton River in northern Westchester County to New York City's spigots. The reservoir was torn down in the 1890s. Today, the Main Branch of the New York Public Library , located in the eastern portion of Bryant Park , stands at that location. Some of the reservoir's original foundation can still be found in the South Court at the Main Branch. Today water is primarily supplied to New York City via its three city water tunnels. The decommissioned Central Park Reservoir still remains, but has not operated as part of
105-607: The Jervis Public Library . The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. In 1927, the Delaware and Hudson Railroad built an experimental steam locomotive that was designed to run at 400 psi (2.8 MPa or 28 kgf /cm ) steam pressure; this locomotive, road number 1401, was named John B. Jervis . The city of Port Jervis, New York , is also named in his honor. The city
126-821: The Smithsonian Institution and the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. The High Bridge which still stands across the Harlem River in New York City, connecting Manhattan and the Bronx , was part of this project. Upon his death, Jervis bequeathed his homestead to the city of Rome to use as the location for a public library. His personal library now forms the John B. Jervis collection of
147-787: The Croton Aqueduct system since 1993. Subway commuters can see historical photographs showing the former reservoir. The display is located on the wall in the underground passageway that connects the Fifth Avenue station on the New York City Subway 's IRT Flushing Line ( 7 and <7> trains) and the 42nd Street–Bryant Park station on the IND Sixth Avenue Line ( B , D , F , <F> , and M trains). A few years before
168-1357: The Croton River is 40 feet high, and the overfall 251 feet in length. The CROTON RIVER LAKE is five miles long, and covers an area of 400 acres. The AQUEDUCT, from the DAM to this Reservoir, is 40½ miles long, and will deliver in twenty-four hours 60,000,000 imperial gallons. The capacity of the Receiving Reservoir is 150,000,000 gallons, and of this reservoir 20,000,000. The cost, to and including this Reservoir, nearly $ 9,000,000. The second tablet stated: CROTON AQUEDUCT – DISTRIBUTING RESERVOIR – COMMISSIONERS: SAMUEL STEVENS ZEBEDEE RING JOHN D. WARD BENJ BIRDSALL SAMUEL R. CHILDS ENGINEERS: JOHN B. JERVIS . CHIEF. H ALLEN, PRIN ASSIST. P. HASTIE, RESIDENT. BUILDERS: THOMSON PRICE & SON. COMMENCED A. D. MDCCCXXXVIII. COMPLETED A. D. MDCCCXLII. 40°45′12″N 73°58′57″W / 40.75333°N 73.98250°W / 40.75333; -73.98250 John B. Jervis John Bloomfield Jervis (December 14, 1795 – January 12, 1885)
189-604: The M&;H RR, designed and built the 41-mile Croton Aqueduct – New York City's fresh water supply from 1842 to 1891 – and was a consulting engineer for the Boston water system. John Bloomfield Jervis was born in 1795 at Huntington, New York , on Long Island , the son of Timothy Jervis, a carpenter, and Phoebe Bloomfield, the eldest of seven children. Jervis moved with his family to Fort Stanwix (later known as Rome ) in upstate New York in 1798 when his father purchased
210-763: The Robert Stephenson & Co., the Lion being built by Foster, Rastrick and Company of England and becoming the second commercial locomotive to run in the Western Hemisphere. In 1831, he became the chief engineer for the Mohawk and Hudson Railroad , a predecessor of the New York Central , and two years later he was appointed chief engineer of upstate New York's Chenango Canal project and helped in its design and construction. In 1836, Jervis
231-589: The Rome public library, named for him. Much of the remainder of Jervis's life was spent writing. He published The Question of Labor and Capital on economics in 1877. Jervis's first steam locomotive design was the DeWitt Clinton while working as chief engineer for the Mohawk and Hudson Railroad in 1831. The following year he built the Experiment (later renamed the Brother Jonathan ),
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#1732771785338252-700: The before mentioned Commissioners were succeeded by Samuel Stevens, John D. Ward, Zevedee Ring, Benjamin Birdsall and Samuel R. Childs. The work was commenced in May, 1837. On the 22nd June, 1842, the Aqueduct was so far completed that it received the Water from the Croton River Lake; on the 27th the Water entered the Receiving Reservoir and was admitted into this Reservoir on the succeeding 4th of July. The DAM at
273-474: The board of directors to test locomotives for the gravity railroad feeding coal to the canal terminal. Among the four engines imported for the experiment was the famous Stourbridge Lion , and the less-known "America", lighter locomotive which was delivered 5 months before the Stourbridge Lion and which was demonstrated for the public the day before the Lion. Both locomotives were ordered from Robert
294-586: The end of 1818, Jervis was promoted to resident engineer in charge of a canal section seventeen miles long and promoted to General Superintendent of the Eastern Division in 1824. Jervis left the Erie Canal in early 1825 to again work with Benjamin Wright on the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company . In 1827, Jervis became the chief engineer for the Delaware and Hudson. In this position, he convinced
315-626: The first steam locomotive with a leading bogie, a four-wheel leading truck that guides the locomotive into curves. This 4-2-0 locomotive, which had two powered driving wheels on a rear axle underneath the locomotive's firebox , became known as the Jervis type. The Mohawk & Hudson Rail Road began operating the 4-2-0 in 1832. In 1836, Jervis was chosen as the chief engineer on the 41-mile Croton Aqueduct , which operated from 1842 to 1865, bringing fresh water to New York City . Many of Jervis's original diagrams for this project are now preserved at both
336-407: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Croton_Reservoir&oldid=932778071 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Croton Distributing Reservoir The Croton Aqueduct
357-617: The other by JOHN MARTINEAU. In April, 1835, a majority of the Electors of the City voted in favour of constructing the Aqueduct. On the 7th May following, the _Common Council_ "instructed the Commissioners to proceed with the work." David B. Douglass was employed as Chief Engineer until October, 1836; when he was succeeded by John B. Jervis . In March, 1837, Benjamin M. Brown resigned, and was succeeded by Thomas T. Woodruff. In March, 1840,
378-477: The reservoir was torn down, there were two tablets affixed to the Reservoir. The inscription was: HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT OF THE CROTON AQUEDUCT – The Law authorizing the construction of the work, passed May 2nd, 1834. Stephen Allen, William W. Fox, Saul Alley, Charles Dusenberry and Benjamin M. Brown were appointed Commissioners. During the year 1834, two surveys were made—one by DAVID B. DOUGLASS and
399-400: Was New York City's foremost water source when it was established. Construction began in May 1837, and filling began July 4, 1842, amidst great fanfare. Prior to the aqueduct's construction, water had been obtained from cisterns , wells and barrels from rain. The aqueduct and reservoir obtained their names from the water's source, a series of mostly underground conduits that brought water from
420-499: Was an American civil engineer . America's leading consulting engineer of the antebellum era (1820–60), Jervis designed and supervised the construction of five of America's earliest railroads, was chief engineer of three major canal projects, designed the famous, pioneering, DeWitt Clinton steam locomotive in 1831 while with the Mohawk & Hudson RR, designed the first locomotive with a swiveling 4-wheeled front bogie truck in 1832 for
441-498: Was chosen as the chief engineer on the 41-mile long Croton Aqueduct . After his work on the aqueduct, Jervis served as a consulting engineer for the Boston water system from 1846 to 1848. In the 1850s and into the early 1860s he worked on railroads in the midwestern United States , serving as chief engineer for both the Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana Railroad , Chicago and Rock Island Railroad (a predecessor of
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