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<br />00242 <br /> <br /> <br />:~~--- -; <br />, , <br />.,. <br />. , <br /> <br />Denver Union Water Co. offices.McPhee Building, <br />17th & Glenarm. 1897. . ~ <br /> <br /> <br />when the Denver \Valer Department moved il~ Administrative offices to 1600 Wesl12th Avenue early in 1978. <br />the municipdl utility was consolidated at a site rjch in early water history. <br />The firsl city Woller company began operating in 1871 with a large well. a sleam-driven pump. and four mile-sol <br />m.lim. By 1860 a second company, the Denver City Irrigation and Woller Co.. built a pumpslalional theWes! 12th <br />..\venue site, J.nd since ,hen water facilities havE' served the Denver area from that address without interruption. <br />During Oenver\ lurbulenl early water history. len W<ller compani~ fought, collapsed or merged UnliI1894, <br />wht'n the remdining two joined forces as The Denver Union Waler Company. <br />"Valer otlice~ remaint'd in the downtown business section apart from plant facililies, first occupying a portion of <br />the McPhee Building .1I17th and Glenarm. Beginning in 1904. Denver Union offices were located in the Dodge <br />Building, 1654 Broadway. latt'r called the Shirley Annex of Ihe Shirley Savoy Hotel. <br />The privdle water compdny\ major contribution to Denver's water system was construction of Cheesman Dam <br />and ReserVOir on Ihe South Plaue River. On its completion in 1905 Cheesman was the highest gravilY arch stone <br /> <br /> <br />Wesl Side Pump SI~lion ~Iturn of cenlury. These hi ric stone buildings rem~in ~t 1600 W. 121h Awe.; the pump station <br />was LId used in 1929 ~nd the reserwoir loreb~y w dr~ined in the '30s. <br /> <br />, - <br /> <br />T <br /> <br />! . <br />