This pump house is the oldest intact industrial building remaining in San Antonio! Designed to raise water to a reservoir about a mile away (beyond the park boundaries), the building is constructed of smooth‐finished, cut limestone extracted from the city rock quarry. The arches over doors and windows are made of rusticated stone. The low hipped roof is covered with corrugated metal. Tall wooden doors are set in the central entrance arch and there are double‐hung wood sash windows on all elevations. A center column and beam support the pump house as it spans the river. The 650 foot-long raceway exits into the river on the south side of the building. Stone rubble wing walls curve from the building along the river. The interior space is not partitioned and possibly was used as an office for the Water Works. It’s a beautiful, must-see building that looks like it jumped out of a storybook!
