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Mount Adams Fire Observation Station
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Fire tower May 2021
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Location	Mount Adams, Newcomb, New York
Coordinates	44°5′12.75″N 74°1′31.8″W / 44.0868750°N 74.025500°W / 44.0868750; -74.025500
Area	7.5 acres (3.0 ha)
Built	1917
Architect	AerMotor Co.
Architectural style	Utilitarian
MPS	Fire Observation Stations of New York State Forest Preserve MPS
NRHP reference No.	06000253
Added to NRHP	April 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.

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

References

1. ^ "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.

External links

• The Fire Towers of New York

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