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]] The Loon Lake Mountain Fire Observation Station is a historic fire observation station located on Loon Lake Mountain at Loon Lake, New York. The station and contributing resources include a 35-foot-tall (10.7 m), steel-frame lookout tower erected in 1917; it has been abandoned since 1971. 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. A wooden tower, built in 1912, preceded the current structure.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

Sources

Martin Podskoch, Adirondack Fire Towers: Their History and Lore, The Northern Districts, Purple Mountain Press, Fleischmanns, New York, 2005, p. 163-9

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	[[File:Loon~~%20Lake%20Mountain%20Fire%20Tower~~.jpg\|right\|]]~~</img>~~]] The '''Loon Lake Mountain Fire Observation Station''' is a historic fire observation station located on [[Loon%20Lake%20Mountain\|Loon Lake Mountain]] at [[Loon%20Lake\|Loon Lake]], New York. The station and contributing resources include a 35-foot-tall (10.7 m), steel-frame lookout tower erected in 1917; it has been abandoned since 1971. 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. A wooden tower, built in 1912, preceded the current structure.		[[File:Loon Lake Mountain Fire Tower.jpg\|right\|]]]] The '''Loon Lake Mountain Fire Observation Station''' is a historic fire observation station located on [[Loon%20Lake%20Mountain\|Loon Lake Mountain]] at [[Loon%20Lake\|Loon Lake]], New York. The station and contributing resources include a 35-foot-tall (10.7 m), steel-frame lookout tower erected in 1917; it has been abandoned since 1971. 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. A wooden tower, built in 1912, preceded the current structure.

	It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.		It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.