Talk:Arlington Reservoir, Massachusetts

Inspiration
The article says: "It is an exact copy of the rotunda from the Samothrace temple complex." This should have a reference. The historic places link does not corroborate this statement. I highly doubt it is a copy, let alone an exact copy. I don't believe the original rotunda at Samorthrace was standing in modern times. Furthermore the original was unlikely to be as tall. Perhaps the top columned section of the water tower is based on a Greek tholos, but not the entire tower. This "exact copy" statement was added to the Samorthrace page also. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samothrace_temple_complex — Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.136.192.1 (talk) 13:12, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
 * I've rephrased the reference, and added the 'citation needed' template. Pgf (talk) 15:26, 12 January 2015 (UTC)

Place Name
Calling the water tower "Arlington Reservoir" is inaccurate; the real Reservoir is a pond on the other side of Mass Ave from here. The place name on the town map (http://www.town.arlington.ma.us/public_documents/ArlingtonMA_Maps/ArlMap02Front.pdf) is "Park Circle Water Tower". --Jason —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.6.118.81 (talk) 13:38, 28 April 2011 (UTC)


 * File:Arlington_Reservoir_2.jpg is a photo of the real reservoir. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.6.118.81 (talk) 13:46, 28 April 2011 (UTC)


 * However, the plaque on the wall of the building does indeed say Arlington Reservoir, as I discovered when I rode by it today, so I guess it is a valid name. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.6.118.81 (talk) 18:41, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

I agree that the name "Arlington Reservoir" only applies to the body of water between Massachusetts Ave and Lowell St. The Park Circle Water Tower is a tank and standpipe connected to the Reservoir, but in spite of the plaque on the building, referring to the water tower as the "Arlington Reservoir" will just serve to confuse people. The record for "Arlington Reservoir" at the National Register of Historic Places has not been digitized, so it's not easy to determine, from my sofa, what it is that's on the Register. If it's the water tower, then my opinion is that the Register has the wrong name for the structure. The "History of the Arlington Reservoir" document currently linked as citation #5 is clearly referring to the open body of water as "Arlington Reservoir", and not the standpipe and tank at the top of Park Ave. 96.233.16.127 (talk) 01:48, 11 September 2013 (UTC)Morris

At the very least, there should be a disambiguation page. "Arlington Reservoir" can refer to three places: The open body of water on Lowell St., the covered reservoir on Bellington St., and (apparently, though no local ever calls it this) the enclosed standpipe at Park Circle. Oddly, the Bellington St. structure doesn't appear on google maps or openstreetmap (except as empty space), nor is it explicitly referenced on the MWRA website, which doesn't really name the "2 million gallons" available in Arlington (http://www.mwra.com/04water/html/cov.htm), but which does say it was built in 1937 (and not 1924, the build date for Park Circle). Page 3 of http://arlingtonma.virtualtownhall.net/Public_Documents/ArlingtonMA_WebDocs/MWRA/MWRA2006-Laskey.pdf explicitly calls the Bellington St. facility "Arlington Covered Storage", and refers to Park Circle as "Arlington Heights Standpipe". Pgf (talk) 15:26, 12 January 2015 (UTC)