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NPS Forth 16'9-00-a (8-86)(8-86) United States Department of the Interior 6 W ational Park Service 11 National Register of Historic Places Continuation Sheet Section number 8 Page 3 North Pumping Station OW Approval No. 1024-0018 St. Joseph County IN In part to make additional use of the well field established in the 1890s around the earlier pumping station, the city created Leeper Park along the south bank of the St. Joseph River, incorporating the public works facilities. The imposing new North Pumping Station cost a quarter -million dollars to build, and was quickly joined by a huge six -million -gallon reinforced concrete reservoir a short distance southeast of the new structure. That the North Pumping Station's elegance was a source of civic pride is evidenced by its inclusion in the 1919 Pictorial Souvenir of South Bend. But for the blocking of some of the windows, the building appears little different today. MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES Anderson and Cooley, comp. South Bend and the Men Who Have Made It. South Bend 1901. Howard, Timothy Edward. History of St. Joseph County, Indiana. Chicago 1907. "Maurer, R. Vernon." Files of Citizens Historical Association, Indianapolis, 5 October 1940. (Document number 2 D12#71 F204 JHA/CFD, on file at the Indiana State Library.) Pictorial Souvenir of South Bend, Indiana 1919. Chicago 1919. GEOGRAPHICAL DATA Verbal Boundary Description Bounded on the west by North Michigan Street. on the north by the existing access driveway next to the building, on the east by the park drive behind the pumping station paralleling Michigan Street, and on the south by the westward extension of the north edge of the building's paved parking lot (immediately southeast of the building). Boundary Justification Encompasses.the building and the lots upon which it sits.