Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, Central Park embraced the Old Croton Aqueduct in design. Significance(s) Sign Current Designation(s) COAL INCLINE AND RAILROAD, HIGH SERVICE WORKS - HIGH BRIDGE 1873 (Demolished) Plate 29, Old Croton Aqueduct Supporting the High Service Works located at the end of High Bridge, the dock and incline were built with a hoisting engine erected for delivering coal to the boiler house. Current Designation(s) Type Interpretation Interpretation Sign Current Designation(s) CLENDENING VALLEY BRIDGE 1839-1841 (Demolished 1870) Plate 30-9, Old Croton Aqueduct Emerging near 95th Street, the aqueduct spans the once rural Clendening Valley on a solid masonry wall broken in three places by tripartite arches before submerging near 102nd Street. Type Significance(s) Interpretation Structure Guide Type Significance(s) Appendix CARMEL RESERVOIR 1896 Plate 3-, New Croton Aqueduct Sign Current Designation(s) COAL STORE c 1879 (Demolished) Plate 30-11, Old Croton Aqueduct Provided coal storage for the 98th Street High Service Works. Type Significance(s) Interpretation Sign Current Designation(s) For more information, see fiche on page XXX. 11 COAL WHARF c 1890s (Demolished) Plate 29, New Croton Aqueduct Type A wharf on the Harlem River below Shaft Number 25 that received coal shipments to power the engines in the pump house and Shaft Number 25. Type Significance(s) Interpretation Sign Significance(s) Interpretation Sign Current Designation(s) CROSS RIVER RESERVOIR 1905-1908 Plate 16-, New Croton Aqueduct Impounding the Cross River created the Cross River Reservoir, which has the capacity to collect 10 billion gallons of water. Current Designation(s) For more information, see fiche on page XXX. CONVENT AVENUE 1888 Plate 30-14, New Croton Aqueduct Type Convent Avenue was created on unoccupied land to provide a bed for the pipes leading from the 135th Street Gatehouse. Type Significance(s) Interpretation Sign Current Designation(s) CROSS RIVER DAM 1905-1908 Plate 16-, New Croton Aqueduct Constructed of cyclopean masonry, the Cross River Dam is 772 feet long and rises 170 feet. Precast concrete blocks, a novel application, were used to face the upstream and downstream walls. For more information, see fiche on page XXX. 12 Significance(s) Interpretation Sign Current Designation(s) CROSS RIVER WASTE WEIR 1905-1908 Plate 16-, New Croton Aqueduct Roughly 240 feet long, the waste weir at Cross River Dam runs along the hillside. The weir is faced with precast concrete blocks and filled solid with cyclopean masonry. Type Significance(s) Current Designation(s) Interpretation Sign Type Stretching 1,110 feet and rising 173 feet, the Croton Falls Dam employed reinforced concrete in its construction. Type Significance(s) Interpretation Sign Interpretation Sign Current Designation(s) CROTON FALLS RESERVOIR 1906-1911 Plate 7-, New Croton Aqueduct Formed by impounding the West Branch and Middle Branch of the Croton Reservoir, the Croton Falls Reservoir has a capacity of about 14 billion gallons of water. Current Designation(s) Structure Guide For more information, see fiche on page XXX. Significance(s) Appendix CROTON FALLS DAM 1906-1911 Plate 7-, New Croton Aqueduct For more information, see fiche on page XXX. CROTON FALLS DIVERTING DAM 1911 Plate 4-, New Croton Aqueduct Type Significance(s) Interpretation Sign Earthen with a stepped concrete channel, the Diverting Dam is 1,185 feet long. For more information, see fiche on page XXX. Type Significance(s) Interpretation Sign Current Designation(s) CROTON FALLS DIVERTING RESERVOIR 1911 Plate 4-, New Croton Aqueduct Connected to the Croton Falls Reservoir by a channel and dividing weir, the Croton Falls Diverting Reservoir has a capacity of nearly 900 million gallons of water. For more information, see fiche on page XXX. Current Designation(s) CROTON FOUNTAIN 1842 (Demolished 1870) Plate 33-1 The circular stone fountain shot Croton water fifty feet in the air and was built to celebrate the opening of the Old Croton Aqueduct in 1842. For more information, see fiche on page XXX. Type Significance(s) Interpretation Sign Current Designation(s) 13 CROTON LAKE 1838-1841 (Submerged) Plate 14-, Old Croton Aqueduct Type An artificial four mile lake formed by damming the Croton River, Croton Lake or “Fountain Reservoir,” as it was called, was capable of impounding 600 million gallons of water. Croton Lake was absorbed into New Croton Reservoir. Type Significance(s) Interpretation Sign Significance(s) Interpretation Sign Current Designation(s) DOBBS FERRY KEEPER’S HOUSE STABLE (Demolished) Plate 24-4, Old Croton Aqueduct The stable was part of the complex at Dobbs Ferry for the principal aqueduct superintendent. Current Designation(s) Type Significance(s) Interpretation Sign DOBBS FERRY BARN c 1880s Plate 24-2, Old Croton Aqueduct A maintenance building for the use of the principal superintendent of the aqueduct north of New York City. Type Significance(s) Interpretation Sign Current Designation(s) DOBBS FERRY KEEPER’S HOUSE 1857 Plate 24-3, Old Croton Aqueduct Italianate in form, the two story masonry structure provided a home for the principal superintendent of the aqueduct north of New York City. For more information, see fiche on page XXX. 14 Current Designation(s) DOBBS FERRY TOOL SHED (Demolished) Plate 24-5, Old Croton Aqueduct The tool shed was a miscellaneous maintenance building located