Dell Rapids Water Tower

The Dell Rapids Water Tower is a stone water tower located at 10th and Orleans Streets in Dell Rapids, South Dakota. The tower was built in 1894 to provide Dell Rapids with a civic water supply. The city decided to build the tower after an 1888 fire burned the south side of Main Street. 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.[2]

Dell Rapids Water Tower
Location10th and Orleans, Dell Rapids, South Dakota
Coordinates43°49′47″N 96°42′32″W
Arealess than one acre
Built1894 (1894)
NRHP reference No.84003356[1]
Added to NRHPFebruary 23, 1984

The tower was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 23, 1984.[1]

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. "Dell Rapids Granite Water Tower" (PDF). Archaeology & Historic Preservation Month 2013. South Dakota State Historical Society. Retrieved March 9, 2014.


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