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The standpipes, three of the seven left
Grand Avenue and Compton Hill, St. Louis
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Before pumps could be trusted to keep pressure steady, cities put a tall open pipe on the main to absorb the surge, and St. Louis dressed three of them up as monuments: a Corinthian column on Grand, a red brick Romanesque tower on Compton Hill, a white one on Bissell. Seven such standpipes survive in the United States and this city has three of them. None has done any work since 1912.
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