Museum's new headquarters located at Avenida Montevideo corner 32 was built in 1952 to purify water from the James River. When they built the plant in Punta Lara is, that it had failed to start, was out of service, becoming a host plant and water distribution to the surrounding neighborhoods. Legal steps of his transfer to the Museum are in the HISTORY of this web site. But it is worth noting some characteristics. This LOCATED in the center of a landscaped site of 10,000 m2 approx. It has two floors with approx. 1.500 m2 covered. The ground floor is currently occupied by the water tanks and pumps for distribution, office, storeroom, and clothing. The top, which was laboratory of the plant, is being restored to house the museum. Has lift, terrace and ample space occupied by the water treatment ponds. In front of the property rises the tower with a tank capacity of 500 mts3. It has a height of 27 meters and a diameter of 9 meters and two-story addition. All built in colonial style with perimeter eave roof tiles, windows with projecting columns that give a special encanto.Por the tasks to which it was intended, the construction is extremely solid, if that add its location, its capacity and potential, where recovery efforts are completed will have recovered for the estate of the city a new and valuable building. With the lure of starting a museum than a city with so much history I needed and even wanted by the several visits that come to know.
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