Mount Adams Fire Observation Station

United States historic place
Mount Adams Fire Observation Station
Fire tower May 2021
44°5′12.75″N 74°1′31.8″W / 44.0868750°N 74.025500°W / 44.0868750; -74.025500
Area7.5 acres (3.0 ha)
Built1917
ArchitectAerMotor Co.
Architectural styleUtilitarian
MPSFire Observation Stations of New York State Forest Preserve MPS
NRHP reference No.06000253[1]
Added to NRHPApril 12, 2006

The Mount Adams Fire Observation Station is a historic fire observation station located on Mount Adams at Newcomb in Essex County, New York. The station and contributing resources include a 56-foot-tall (17 m), steel frame lookout tower erected in 1917, a foot trail leading up the 3,250 foot summit, and the 1922 observers cabin with shed and privy. The tower is a prefabricated structure built by the Aermotor Corporation to provide a front line of defense in preserving the Adirondack Park from the hazards of forest fires.[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ^ unnamed (n.d.). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Mount Adams Fire Observation Station". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2010-07-17.

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  • The Fire Towers of New York
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