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Blue Mountain Fire Observation Station
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Blue Mountain Fire Observation Tower, August 2009
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| Location: | Blue Mountain, Indian Lake, New York |
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| Area: | 14.6 acres (5.9 ha) |
| Built: | 1917 |
| Architect: | Aermotor Corporation |
| Governing body: | State |
| MPS: | Fire Observation Stations of New York State Forest Preserve MPS |
| NRHP Reference#: | 01001035[1] |
| Added to NRHP: | September 23, 2001 |
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]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.[1]