The Water Works

Just behind the art museum are Philadelphia's Water Works. They're sort of fascinating because they're so old and because they were a 19th century tourist attraction--there are walks on the cliffs above them that people took to enjoy the marvel of the Water Works.

(This is a mural in Fairmount of, I think, how the Water Works and surrounding cliffs used to look.)

Plus, the Water Works were the subject of lots of art. Here is William Rush's Allegory of the Schuylkill (named after the river).

Here is Thomas Eakins' William Rush Carving His Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill River.