Dell Rapids Water Tower

The Dell Rapids Water Tower is a stone water tower located at 10th and Orleans Streets in Dell Rapids, South Dakota. The tower was built in 1894 to provide Dell Rapids with a civic water supply. The city decided to build the tower after an 1888 fire burned the south side of Main Street. The 45-foot (14 m) water tower is built with Sioux quartzite, a type of red-pink rock found in southern South Dakota, southwest Minnesota, and northwest Iowa. The tower provided water to Dell Rapids until 1960, when the city constructed a new tower. It is the only stone water tower remaining in South Dakota.[2]

Dell Rapids Water Tower
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	10th and Orleans, Dell Rapids, South Dakota
Coordinates	43°49′47″N 96°42′32″W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1894 (1894)
NRHP reference No.	84003356[1]
Added to NRHP	February 23, 1984

The tower was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 23, 1984.[1]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. "Dell Rapids Granite Water Tower" (PDF). Archaeology & Historic Preservation Month 2013. South Dakota State Historical Society. Retrieved March 9, 2014.