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This is not the mag­nif­i­cent main build­ing of the R. C. Har­ris Water Treat­ment Plant in Toron­to. It’s mere­ly a pump­house and main­te­nance build­ing below the more famous main struc­ture which is “opu­lent with mar­ble entry­ways and vast halls filled with pools of water and fil­tra­tion equip­ment”. Yet even this struc­ture is grand, wor­thy of the self-taught genius who believed that civ­il engi­neer­ing was a spir­i­tu­al calling.