Kingfisher Tower
The Kingfisher Tower is an approximately 18-meter-high observation tower near Cooperstown in the US state of New York .
The tower, built for Edward Clark , the president of the Singer sewing machine company , in 1876 in neo -Gothic style, never served an actual purpose, but was intended as a foil (folly) and was purely a staffage building . The architect Henry Janeway Hardenbergh was influenced by the Rhine romanticism and built the tower on the east bank of Otsego Lake , at Point Judith on the Clarks family estate. The tower is still privately owned and cannot be visited.
literature
- Michael Conforti, James A. Ganz, Neil Harris, Sarah Lees, Gilbert T. Vincent: The Clark Brothers Collect. Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings. Yale University Press, New Haven CT 2006, ISBN 0-931102-65-0 (exhibition catalog).
Web links
Commons : Kingfisher Tower - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
- Kingfisher Tower at startsandfits (English with pictures)
- Description of the Kingfisher Tower (English with picture)
Coordinates: 42 ° 43 '40.9 " N , 74 ° 54' 22.9" W.