Designed in 1869 by William LeBaron Jenney in a Swiss Gothic style, the Riverside Water Tower was a technological marvel of steam driven pumps providing a safe, reliable water supply to village residents. The water tower served as a beautifully designed advertising piece, calling attention to the passengers on the trains stopping at the station that something special and different was growing here along the Des Plaines River. A fire in 1913 caused much of the tower to need to be rebuilt in 1915.  (www.riversidemuseum.net)