American Furniture, Folk and Decorative Arts

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Begun in 1812, the Fairmount Water Works on the Schuylkill River was world renowned for its Classical Revival beauty, state of the art engineering and well-designed public gardens and walkways. Built from a design by Frederick Graff (1774-1847), the new works solved the inadequate storage problem of the earlier Water Works designed by architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1764-1820).