Blue Mountain Fire Observation Station

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.[2]

Blue Mountain Fire Observation Station
Blue Mountain Fire Observation Tower, August 2009
LocationBlue Mountain, Indian Lake, New York
Coordinates43°52′20.6″N 74°24′3.4″W
Area14.6 acres (5.9 ha)
Built1917
ArchitectAermotor Corporation
MPSFire Observation Stations of New York State Forest Preserve MPS
NRHP reference No.01001035[1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 23, 2001

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.[1]

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. Wes Haynes (May 2000). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Blue Mountain Fire Observation Station". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2010-02-20. See also: "Accompanying three photos".

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