Eastern Avenue Sewage Pumping Station

3D Model

My biggest 3D scan to date! Located in downtown Baltimore, this sewage pumping station is perhaps the most beautiful public works building in the city.

“Designed by architect Henry Brauns and completed in 1912, the Eastern Avenue Pumping Station was the architectural crown jewel in the city’s ambitious plan to provide its citizens with modern-day sanitary sewage system. Baltimore’s topography dictated the location, essentially allowing gravity to transport wastewater created in downtown directly to the station…Today’s wastewater is pumped using modern electric pumps to its final destination at the Back River Wastewater Treatment Plan approximately six miles east of the station.”

-Baltimore National Heritage Area

Text for the annotated tour is from the building’s 2015 Landmark Designation Report.

Created in RealityCapture from 2564 images taken with a Nikon D750 and a drone.