page_title: Thomas Hill Standpipe
section_title: Structure
hierarchical_section_title: Thomas Hill Standpipe / Structure
caption_attribution_description: English: Stairway inside the Thomas Hill Standpipe between the exterior and interior walls. This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 74000185
context_page_description: Thomas Hill Standpipe, which holds 1,750,000 US gallons of water, is a riveted wrought iron tank with a wood frame jacket located on Thomas Hill in Bangor, Maine, United States. The metal tank is 50 feet high and 75 feet in diameter. Built in 1897, it is an architecturally distinctive city landmark, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
context_section_description: The standpipe is really two structures in one. The standpipe itself consists of steel plates riveted one outside the other. The building which enclosed it is 85 feet (26 m) in diameter and 110 feet (34 m) high.
  The 24 main posts which extend up past the observation deck begin at the base of the structure. Made of hard pine, they measure 12×12 inches and are 48 feet (15 m) long. The entire structure has a stone foundation 9 feet (2.7 m) high and 3½ feet thick at the base. The sill atop the foundation is made of bent pine planks and is 14 inches (360 mm) thick.
  Along the interior wall of the façade is a winding staircase which leads to the promenade deck encircling the top of the building. The deck is 12 feet (3.7 m) wide and 280 feet (85 m) in circumference.
  The exterior of the building is clad in wooden shingles, and the line of windows that illuminate the inside stairs are topped by hoods in the then-popular Shingle style of architecture.  To erect the wooden part of the structure took 42,000 feet (13,000 m) of hard pine and 22,000 cedar shingles. James M. Davis of Bangor, who had recently built the original Bangor Auditorium in only 22 days, set up a portable saw mill and blacksmith shop on the site and employed 22 men.  The entire project took about six months to complete, and was filled starting in June 1898.
  The lights around the top of the Standpipe are sometimes referred to as "the crown on the Queen City".
caption: Stairway inside the Thomas Hill Standpipe between the exterior and interior walls.
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