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What is the site address?
>===== Original Message From Museum discussion list
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>Dear Timothy,
>This is the oldest intact American Method Filtration Plant and Pumping
>Station - it dates to 1882. It is on the State and National Registers of
>Historical Sites and is National Landmark Eligible - that nomination is
>currently being prepared. It is also a designated "Official Project" of Save
>America's Treasures, which means it has been defined as a site that "defines
>America." It holds 100 years of intact technology - steam to electricity,
>which Robert M. Vogel of the Smithsonian Institution has called "the history
>of the Industrial Revolution in one building - steam to electricity."
>The cost of saving the site - first phase - which would have the Museum and
>Education Center up and Running - is only $6 million. We already have over
>$1.3 million being held in escrow to stabilize the site. We have already
>id'd another $4.5 million which could be used to preserve the site. The
>money, has not been a worry as there is such an enormous response to this
>very important national industrial site.
>
>Take a look at our website, and see if you still feel the same way. If this
>were just some old brick factory, he might have a point. But at this site,
>the American Method of Water filtraiton, which became a national and
>international standard was perfected - also the Activated carbon method of
>water filtration was invented here in the '20's - it has so many levels of
>historical importance, and would make an extraordinary museum and education
>center of technology and water.
>
>Saving Industrial sites and technology is one of the most neglected areas in
>this country.
>
>THat is why there is a State and National Coalition to save this site which
>includes the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Architects
>Institute of America (AIA) - both National and New Jersey branch, Society for
>Industrial Archeology (SIA),
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