Location Type

Waterfront / Riverfront

Waterfront and riverfront pages focus on edges where industry, ecology, access, shipping, and public space meet in the same physical zone.

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Research In Waterfront / Riverfront

46 published articles

Water Works Park, Detroit

Research Record

Updated 2026

Detroit’s Water Works Park: A Lost Public Landscape Around a Working Utility

Detroit Utility / Energy Infrastructure Active

Detroit’s Water Works Park separates three histories too often collapsed into one: a vanished recreational landscape, surviving civic memory, and a continuing water-treatment function.

Place
Water Works Park, Detroit
Coverage
Approximate
Sources
5
Updated
2026
Fairmount Water Works, Philadelphia

Research Record

Updated 2026

Fairmount Water Works: The Landscape Was Part of the Machine

Pennsylvania Utility / Energy Infrastructure Adaptive Reuse

Philadelphia’s celebrated riverfront waterworks links pumping technology, parkland, and pollution—and shows why preserving an elegant building cannot preserve a water source by itself.

Place
Fairmount Water Works, Philadelphia
Coverage
Approximate
Sources
6
Updated
2026
Chain of Rocks Water Intake Towers, St. Louis

Research Record

Updated 2026

Chain of Rocks Intake Towers: Preservation Meets the Backup Water Supply

Midwest Utility / Energy Infrastructure Preserved

St. Louis’s river towers reveal a preservation question with operational stakes: what would it take to make historic infrastructure useful as a backup again?

Place
Chain of Rocks Water Intake Towers, St. Louis
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Approximate
Sources
4
Updated
2026
Louisville Water Tower and Pumping Station No. 1

Research Record

Updated 2026

Louisville Water Tower: After Restoration, Who Is the Landmark For?

United States Utility / Energy Infrastructure Adaptive Reuse

A restored riverfront landmark and Louisville Water’s decision to end paid rentals offer a concrete test of what public access means after adaptive reuse.

Place
Louisville Water Tower and Pumping Station No. 1
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Approximate
Sources
6
Updated
2026
North Point Water Tower, Milwaukee

Research Record

Updated 2026

North Point Water Tower: The Machine Inside Milwaukee’s Landmark

Midwest Utility / Energy Infrastructure Preserved

Milwaukee’s Gothic water tower preserves a pressure-control device—and an opportunity to explain the larger system that made the lake useful to the city.

Place
North Point Water Tower, Milwaukee
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Sources
4
Updated
2026
RiverEdge Park

Research Record

Updated 2026

RiverEdge Park, Aurora

Aurora Landscape / Public Space Active

The project shows how a postindustrial riverfront can function as civic and cultural infrastructure while remaining tied to Aurora's downtown redevelopment geography.

Place
RiverEdge Park
Coverage
Exact
Sources
1
Updated
2026
The 78 / McDonald's Park

Research Record

Updated 2026

The 78 / McDonald’s Park, Chicago

Chicago Commercial Building Under Redevelopment

The May 2026 naming-rights announcement makes the Fire's privately funded stadium a sharper marker for how The 78 is being turned from undeveloped riverfront...

Place
The 78 / McDonald's Park
Coverage
Approximate
Sources
3
Updated
2026
Park No. 597 / SEPA Station #1 Natural Area

Research Record

Updated 2026

Park No. 597 / SEPA Station #1 Natural Area, Chicago

Chicago Landscape / Public Space Active

A restored natural area wrapped around waterway aeration infrastructure became a citywide symbol in May 2026 when bald eagle hatchlings were confirmed and the...

Place
Park No. 597 / SEPA Station #1 Natural Area
Coverage
Approximate
Sources
4
Updated
2026
Shiras Steam Plant Site

Research Record

Updated 2026

Shiras Steam Plant Site, Marquette

Michigan Industrial Site Demolished / Lost

Shiras gives the Marquette pack a twentieth-century energy chapter, where coal power, municipal utility service, demolition, and waterfront reuse converge.

Place
Shiras Steam Plant Site
Coverage
Approximate
Sources
3
Updated
2026
Founder's Landing Dock Remains

Research Record

Updated 2026

Founder’s Landing Dock Remains, Marquette

Michigan Industrial Site Ruin / Partial Remains

Founder's Landing is an industrial waterfront site where the architecture is partly missing, partly underwater, and still central to how Marquette can interpret its...

Place
Founder's Landing Dock Remains
Coverage
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Sources
2
Updated
2026
Upper Harbor Ore Dock / Presque Isle Dock

Research Record

Updated 2026

Upper Harbor Ore Dock / Presque Isle Dock, Marquette

Michigan Industrial Site Active

The Presque Isle dock is the working counterpart to the Lower Harbor landmark: a still-active ore-loading structure that keeps Marquette's industrial waterfront from becoming...

Place
Upper Harbor Ore Dock / Presque Isle Dock
Coverage
Approximate
Sources
4
Updated
2026
Lower Harbor Ore Dock

Research Record

Updated 2026

Lower Harbor Ore Dock, Marquette

Michigan Industrial Site Ruin / Partial Remains

The Lower Harbor Ore Dock reads as more than a downtown backdrop. It is the visible remains of a harbor system that connected the...

Place
Lower Harbor Ore Dock
Coverage
Approximate
Sources
3
Updated
2026

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