Built 1917 NRHP Reference # 01001035 Area 6 ha | Architect Aermotor Corporation Opened 1917 Added to NRHP 23 September 2001 | |
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MPS Fire Observation Stations of New York State Forest Preserve MPS Similar Blue Mountain, Adirondack Mountains, Blue Mountain Lake, Raquette Lake, Adirondack Museum | ||
The Blue Mountain Fire Observation Station is a historic fire observation station located on Blue Mountain at Indian Lake in Hamilton County, New York. The station includes a 35-foot-tall (11 m), steel frame lookout tower erected in 1917, an observer's cabin built in 1975, the remains of three observer's cabins, remains of a radar station built in the 1960s, and remnants of telephone lines along the foot trail. There are four contributing resources: the tower, trail, remnants of a 1949 observer's cabin, and 1890s stone benchmark. The tower is a prefabricated structure built by the Aermotor Corporation and provided a front line of defense in preserving the Adirondack Forest Preserve from the hazards of forest fires.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.