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Cold Mountain Fire Lookout Station, Lookout Tower, Krassel District, Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness, Dixie, Idaho County, ID
Summary
Significance: The Cold Mountain Lookout Station tower is representative of an important lookout design type, the Aeromotor 7x7 steel cab. / The fire lookout tower was situated on the southeast portion of the site on Cold Mountain. It consisted of an open steel platform with four vertical steel columns bolted to concrete block footings to form a sheer core. The structure is galvanized steel and is the "7 x 7" prefabricated type (plans MC-39 , MD-79) manufactured by the Aeromotor Company of Chicago, Illinois. The name is derived from the seven foot by seven foot steel cab installed atop of the structure. It was assembled on the site in 1935.
Survey number: HABS ID-115-A
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Date
1935 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Location
Dixie, 45.55407, -115.46124
Source
Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
