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What's Inside The Big Building At The Chestnut Hill Reservoir Near Boston College?
The museum in Chestnut Hill houses steam engines that once pumped water to Boston and its surrounding villages.
August 30, 2024
CHESTNUT HILL - In the upscale village of Chestnut Hill, the home of the Boston Marathon's Heartbreak Hill, there's a building near Boston College that catches your eye.
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It's the Metropolitan Waterworks Museum, next to the Chestnut Hill Reservoir.
"When this opened to great fanfare in 1888, it really was the pride of Boston," Eric Peterson, the museum's executive director, told WBZ-TV.
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