Time for Water Works.

From: The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA) | Date: July 9, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Byline: Stephan Salisbury

Jul. 9--It's been battered, flooded, graffitied and burned. It's been inundated with garbage and weed trees, suffered theft and vandalism, decay and collapse. Despite it all, like the city and the park it gave birth to, the Fairmount Water Works has survived, a wreath of possibility on the Schuylkill. Now, barring any more last-minute unexpected riptides, the neoclassical landmark stretching along the river below the Philadelphia Museum of Art will see its largest jewel -- the 1812 Engine House -- open within the next several days as a ...

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