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 (United States), county in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 37,381. Its county seat is the hamlet of Elizabethtown (CDP), New York, Eliza ...

. 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 park in northeastern New York (state), New York protecting the Adirondack Mountains. The park was established in 1892 for "the free use of all the people for their health and pleasure", and for watershed protection. At , ...

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 Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...

in 2006.

References

External links

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