{"id":3226,"date":"2008-01-28T14:39:11","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T18:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2008\/01\/28\/toilet-museum-moving-to-watertown\/"},"modified":"2008-01-28T14:39:14","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T18:39:14","slug":"toilet-museum-moving-to-watertown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2008\/01\/28\/toilet-museum-moving-to-watertown\/","title":{"rendered":"Toilet Museum Moving to Watertown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wickedlocal.com\/content\/sites\/watertown\/phowpmuseum2_0125\/0\/g13c1a54498292f31da0968d54ba30f3332c28c4d729c41.jpg\" alt=\"phoWPmuseum2_0125\" align=\"left\" height=\"421\" hspace=\"6\" width=\"316\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span>WATERTOWN &#8211; <\/span>The newest addition to Pleasant Street certainly doesn\u2019t stink.<\/p>\n<p>What was once a tourist attraction in Worcester is now heading through the pipelines to Watertown. The American Sanitary Plumbing Museum, aka \u201cthe toilet museum,\u201d is moving to the West End with a promise to \u201cbowl\u201d people over.<\/p>\n<p>The largest plumbing contractor in New England, J.C. Cannistraro LLC, has inherited the collection. It plans to expand the museum at the company\u2019s headquarters on Rosedale Road, off the Pleasant Street corridor. The museum will be relocated to a 150-year-old former icehouse located on the property.<\/p>\n<p><span>John Cannistraro Jr., president of J.C. Cannistraro LLC, said the<br \/>\nvisitors in Watertown can expect an expanded display of the collection<br \/>\n\u2014 antique commodes, wooden pipes, water heaters, chain-pull toilets and<br \/>\nornate porcelain thrones dating back to the early 19th century \u2014<br \/>\nportraying a \u201cprogression of the industry\u201d from the 1700s through today.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wickedlocal.com\/watertown\/news\/x142934697\">Watertown Tab<\/a><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Dowbrigade has a long-standing interest in toilets in general and urinals in particular, and so the news that a world-class collection is moving to our own town has filled us with excitement and civic pride. We can&#8217;t wait to call our brother-in-law in Flushing, NY to crow.<br \/><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>In fact, we have documented several possible additions to this valuable collection, including the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/03\/17\/a-urinal-thats-hard-to-miss\/\">candy-apple red open-mouthed urinal<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2007\/02\/12\/drunk-drivers-exposed\/\">anti-drunk driving talking urinal<\/a> from New Mexico. We definitely will have to give Mr. <\/span><\/i><span><i>Cannistraro a call&#8230;..<\/i><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"poweredbyperformancing\">Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/scribefire.com\/\">ScribeFire<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WATERTOWN &#8211; The newest addition to Pleasant Street certainly doesn\u2019t stink. What was once a tourist attraction in Worcester is now heading through the pipelines to Watertown. The American Sanitary Plumbing Museum, aka \u201cthe toilet museum,\u201d is moving to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2008\/01\/28\/toilet-museum-moving-to-watertown\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,580,2342],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-friends-and-family","category-watertown"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}