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Grosse Pointe Farms Water Filtration Plant

Grosse Pointe Farms Water Filtration Plant is a Michigan historical marker in Grosse Pointe Farms, Wayne County, dedicated 1993.

29 Moross Rd., Grosse Pointe Farms

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In 1893 summer residents organized the Grosse Pointe Water Company. Soon after, a village waterworks was built on Lake Shore near Moross Road to serve houses along the lake. The Peninsular Electric Light Company (forerunner of the Detroit Edison Company) bought the facility in 1905 and provided service to Grosse Pointe Farms, and later, Highland Park. During the 1920s Grosse Pointe evolved into a suburb and required a larger water system. In 1929 a waste water pumping station was erected on Chalfonte Avenue. The following year this filtration plant was built. Detroit architect Robert O. Derrick designed the elegant Neo-Georgian exterior to mask the building’s utilitarian use.

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Historical maps covering this location

1873 · (Map of Wayne County, Michigan) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1897 · Southern Michigan. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1905 · Grosse Pointe, Michigan (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1905 · Grossepoint, Michigan (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1918 · Grosse Pointe, Michigan (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Southern Michigan, 1897, covering the location of Grosse Pointe Farms Water Filtration Plant, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Southern Michigan, 1897, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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