10th and Orleans, Dell Rapids, South Dakota. County/parish: Minnehaha.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places February 23, 1984. NRIS 84003356.
1 contributing structure.Also known as:
The Dell Rapids Water Tower is a stone water tower located at 10th and Orleans Streets in Dell Rapids, South Dakota. Dell Rapids had a large fire in 1888, which burned the south side of Main Street. A few years later another fire destroyed the office of the newspaper, The Dell Rapids Times. The editor campaigned that a water system should be constructed. A water works was developed and the town's first water tower was built in 1894.
The 45-foot (14 m) water tower is built with Sioux quartzite, a type of red-pink rock found in southern South Dakota, southwest Minnesota, and northwest Iowa. The tower provided water to Dell Rapids until 1960, when the city constructed a new tower. It is the only stone water tower remaining in South Dakota.
The tower was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 23, 1984.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93205360