Tankhouse and Barn

I've posted this scene before, but I like this angle better, though you lose the truck.
Either way, it's in Roosevelt County, New Mexico.

Tankhouse: Nara Visa

I'm guessing this unusual design was the work of the WPA.
It sits on the old Nara Visa School grounds.

Tank, car

Enclosed Tankhouses

 

An old one

 You don't find that many old, enclosed tankhouses around my corner of the Southern Plains.
Today we found one on each side of the Curry/Roosevelt County line. I assume they were both in Roosevelt, until 1909 when Curry was carved out of Quay and Roosevelt Counties.
The are both wood frame, covered in stucco. I suspect the one on the left to be the older one.
Some of them look a little like lighthouses in the distance. You just never know what's out there, until you get out there.

Tankhouses

Curry County, NM

Tankhouses, Solano,
New Mexico
(Sixgun Siding)

(Encyclopedia of the Great Plains) Tankhouses are outbuildings constructed to provide water storage for domestic consumption and to insure dependable water pressure. The basic design is simple and straightforward– a large water tank (2,000 to 3,000 gallons) sits on an elevated platform some twenty to forty feet in height. Usually both the tank and the tower structure are enclosed. The area inside the tower is used for a workshop or storage or occasionally as a dwelling area. Wood is used most frequently in the construction of a tankhouse, although in some areas stone, brick, masonry block, or a combination of these materials is employed. Square, straight tower construction is most common in the Great Plains, but tapered towers are found occasionally, and in Nebraska circular towers occur in some counties. Continued