Waterworks museum & Chestnut Hill Reservoir walk

A free 45 minute tour of the Waterworks Museum followes by a walk on the 1.5 mile paved trail around the Chestnut Hill Reservoir.

The Waterworks Museum was originally a high-service pumping station of the Boston Metropolitan Waterworks. It contains well-preserved mechanical engineering devices in a Richardsonian Romanesque building.
During its busiest years, the waterworks pumped as much as a hundred million gallons of water each day. The station was decommissioned in the 1970s, and later some of its buildings were turned into condominiums. After a period of disuse, the pumping station was restored, and in 2007 the Waterworks Preservation Trust was set up to oversee its conversion into a museum in 2011.