Haystack Mountain Tower
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The Haystack Mountain Tower in Norfolk, Connecticut
is a stone tower on Haystack Mountain
designed by Erick Kennsett Rossiter and Rossiter & Muller. It was built in 1929 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
in 1993.
It is a 34 foot high tower at the summit of the 1716 ft. elevation mountain, which "allows visitors to see Long Island Sound, the Berkshires, and peaks in Massachusetts and New York."
It is a 50 foot high tower with a 22 foot diameter, built primarily of dark grey granite
that was quarried at the site.
Norfolk, Connecticut
Norfolk is a town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 1,660 at the 2000 census.Norfolk is perhaps best known as the site of the Yale Summer School of Music – Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, which hosts an annual chamber music concert series in "the Music Shed," a...
is a stone tower on Haystack Mountain
Haystack Mountain (Connecticut)
Haystack Mountain in Norfolk, Connecticut is a mountain in Connecticut, located in Haystack Mountain State Park.The Haystack Mountain Tower, built in 1929 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places is upon it....
designed by Erick Kennsett Rossiter and Rossiter & Muller. It was built in 1929 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
in 1993.
It is a 34 foot high tower at the summit of the 1716 ft. elevation mountain, which "allows visitors to see Long Island Sound, the Berkshires, and peaks in Massachusetts and New York."
It is a 50 foot high tower with a 22 foot diameter, built primarily of dark grey granite
Granite
Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granite usually has a medium- to coarse-grained texture. Occasionally some individual crystals are larger than the groundmass, in which case the texture is known as porphyritic. A granitic rock with a porphyritic...
that was quarried at the site.