Credit: Library of Congress
An 1875 map of Central Park showing the addition of another Croton reservoir required by the rapidly expanding population of NYC and its growing demand for water. We know this large reservoir today as Lake Onassis.
Credit: Library of Congress
A drawing for the plan of a gatehouse structure on the Receiving Reservoir shows exterior and interior embankments, the brick conduit within and iron waste pipe in vaults. It is signed by John B. Jervis, Chief Engineer.
Credit: Jervis Public Library-‐Rome, NY
Another view of plans for a gatehouse structure on the Receiving Reservoir.
Credit: Cornell University Archives
Excerpt of letter describing the 2 Manhattan reservoirs of the Croton Aqueduct, describing the “magnificence” of this giant undertaking.”
Credit: Jervis Public Library-‐Rome, NY
A drawing of the Influent Gate Chamber of the Receiving Reservoir on its west side at 85th St.. The brick lined water tunnel ended here, water continuing downtown on 5th Ave. in 2 iron pipes to 42nd St. at the Distributing Reservoir.
Courtesy David Rumsey Map Collection
A cropped version of the 1851 Dripps Map shows the existing Receiving Reservoir, surrounded by the planned, but as yet unbuilt street grid before Central Park acquired the land between 5th and 8th Avenues.
Credit: Jervis Public Library-‐Rome, NY
Receiving Reservoir effluent pipes directed the reservoir water into mains on 5th Ave, continuing 2 miles south to the Distributing Reservoir on 42 St..
Credit: Library of Congress
Drawing by Croton engineer F.B. Tower of the plan for the Receiving Reservoir, occupying more than 30 acres between 79th and 86th St. between what would have been 6th and 7th Avenues if Central Park had not been built.
Credit: Robert Bracklow-‐New York Historical Society
An early 20th century photo of the Receiving Reservoir, in use, looking northwest. Gatehouses occupy north and south basins and the influent gatehouse is in the distance at 85th St.. The city has grown uptown, past Central Park, in what used to be a remote up island neighborhood.
Credit: Henry Loomis Sperr-‐New York Public Library
After the Receiving Reservoir was retired from service in the late 1920s it was gradually filled in with excavated material from midtown construction projects to become the Great Lawn of Central Park. One of its soon to be demolished gatehouses is seen here near an ornate Keepers House in the background.
Credit: UCLA Dept. of Geography, Benjamin and Gladys Thomas Air Photo Archives, Fairchild Aerial Surveys CollecDon
A 1933 aerial photo, looking south, of the empty Receiving Reservoir in Central Park as it was being filled in to become the Great Lawn. New construcDon of skyscrapers in midtown show the Chrysler Building, Empire State Building and 30 Rockefeller Plaza in the distance.
Credit: Library of Congress
The plan of the influent gatehouse of the Receiving Reservoir as drawn by T. Schramke. The brick aqueduct enters from the right where its flow of water is controlled by manually operated regulating gates as it enters the reservoir.