9000 Quarry St., Manassas (Independent City), Virginia. County/parish: Manassas.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places August 15, 2016. NRIS 16000533.
1 contributing structure.Also known as:
The Manassas Water Tower is a historic water storage facility at 9000 Quarry Street in Manassas, Virginia. It is a steel structure 147 feet (45 m) in height, and is typical in style for its 1914 construction date, with a steel trestle supporting a tank with a hemispherical base and conical roof. It has a capacity of 75,000 US gallons (280,000 L; 62,000 imp gal). It was built near one of the city's six water wells, and is one of six water towers in the state with a hemispherical bottom. It is also the oldest water tower in the region.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.
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