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Initial plans would have seen the tower stand either 60 ft (18 m) [4] or 105 ft (32 m) tall, [3] but the plans were altered during construction. [3] The square base of the tower has sides measuring 19 ft (5.8 m), while the diameter of the circular tower is 16 ft (4.9 m).
Tree stands or deer stands are open or enclosed platforms used by hunters. The platforms are secured to trees in order to elevate the hunter and give them a better vantage point. A tripod stand is a similar device, but because it is freestanding rather than attached to a tree, it is not technically a tree stand.
The tower was presumably built as a hunting tower, and also perhaps to make the view from Bolton Hall, about a mile to the north-west across a valley, more picturesque. [ 1 ] In an estate plan of 1737, it is shown with a cupola , standing in a square enclosure.
The original 'Huntingtower' (now known as the 'Eastern Tower') was a free-standing building, constructed primarily as a gatehouse. It consists of three storeys and a garret under the roof. Around the end of the 15th century a second tower (the 'Western Tower') was built alongside the Huntingtower, with a gap of about 3 metres between them.
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Roxbury High Fort is a historic fort site on Beech Glen Street at Fort Avenue in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.The site now contains a small park and the Cochituate Standpipe, also known as Fort Hill Tower, built in 1869.
2. Central Park Tower, New York. Height: 1,550 feet Also known as Nordstrom Tower, this is the tallest residential building in the world and the tallest building outside of Asia by roof height alone.
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