The Hobbs Brook Basin Gate House is a historic waterworks

gatehouse A gatehouse is a type of fortified gateway, an entry control point building, enclosing or accompanying a gateway for a town, religious house, castle, manor house, or other fortification building of importance. Gatehouses are typically the most ...

off Winter Street at the mouth of

Hobbs Brook Stony Brook is a stream largely running through Lincoln and Weston, Massachusetts, then forming the Weston/ Waltham boundary, and emptying into the Charles River across from the Waltham/ Newton boundary. It has two tributaries, Cherry Brook a ...

Waltham, Massachusetts Waltham ( ) is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, and was an early center for the labor movement as well as a major contributor to the Technological and industrial history of the United States, American Industrial Revoluti ...

. The gatehouse forms part of the

water supply Water supply is the provision of water by public utilities, commercial organisations, community endeavors or by individuals, usually via a system of pumps and pipes. Public water supply systems are crucial to properly functioning societies. Th ...

system of

Cambridge, Massachusetts Cambridge ( ) is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. It is a suburb in the Greater Boston metropolitan area, located directly across the Charles River from Boston. The city's population as of the 2020 United States census, ...

, was built in 1894–95, and was placed in service in 1897. The building, designed by Marshall N. Stearns, is a single-story granite-faced structure standing on a granite platform that is accessed from Winter Street via a wooden bridge. It has narrow arched openings, and is topped by a flat roof with a bracketed cornice and copper balustrade. The building was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...

in 1989.

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Buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts Water supply infrastructure on the National Register of Historic Places Infrastructure completed in 1897 Buildings and structures in Waltham, Massachusetts Gatehouses (waterworks) Reservoirs in Massachusetts National Register of Historic Places in Waltham, Massachusetts {{WalthamMA-NRHP-stub

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