Used until recently, this 78-foot-tall conical-roofed water tower is 45 feet in diameter and has a 370,000-gallon capacity. The lower portion is built of the ubiquitous coursed canal rock and the upper of brick. In 2009 a metal roof replaced the old wood and shingle roof.
Kathryn Bishop Eckert, "Sault Ste. Marie Water Tower", [Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MI-01-CH14.
Buildings of Michigan, Kathryn Bishop Eckert. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012, 556-556.
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