Inside the Abandoned Pumping Station

The original entrance to the Calf Pasture Pumping Station, 2011. (Click to enlarge image)

Since its closure as an active pumping station in the late 1960s, the Calf Pasture Pumping Station has been neglected. Currently, most windows are boarded up and a high fence surrounds the property as the various institutions on Columbia Point build and expand.  The beauty of the building and the mystery of the inaccessible have led many people to wonder what the interior looks like.  

UMass Boston’s Associate Provost Peter Langer toured the inside of the building in 2011, and took these photographs.  

An interior view of the Calf Pasture Pumping Station, 2011. (Click to enlarge image)
Some of the old pieces of equipment can still be seen, 2011. (Click to enlarge image)

Several others have  had access to the building, and recorded the building’s interior.   Late in 2008, an artist entered the building, and  documented their visit on the website Desolate Metropolis.

Have you been inside the Calf Pasture Pumping Station?  Do you have observations or pictures?   Please share these with us in the comments section below.   in the comments below?  

2 thoughts on “Inside the Abandoned Pumping Station”

  1. I have been in this building a number of times over the past few years. The link below is from the last time I went in, Mar 2012. I believe the building had already been sold to UMB, because some cleanup was done inside, but the building was still very easily accessible. The inner fence wasn’t built yet).

    I went back last weekend to find it boarded up tight with a second, inner fence installed.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/derekwatt/sets/72157629303967888/

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