The Mount Adams Fire Observation Station is a historic fire observation station located on Mount Adams at Newcomb in

Essex County, New York Essex County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 37,381. Its county seat is the hamlet of Elizabethtown. Its name is from the English county of Essex. Essex is one of only 2 counties that are ...

. The station and contributing resources include a , 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 The Adirondack Park is a part of New York's Forest Preserve in northeastern New York, United States. The park was established in 1892 for “the free use of all the people for their health and pleasure”, and for watershed protection. The park ...

from the hazards of forest fires. It was added to the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artist ...

in 2006.

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The Fire Towers of New York
Government buildings completed in 1917 Towers completed in 1917 Government buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Buildings and structures in Essex County, New York Fire lookout towers in Adirondack Park Fire lookout towers on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) National Register of Historic Places in Essex County, New York {{EssexCountyNY-NRHP-stub