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Highland Park Tower

Field	Value
name	Highland Park Tower
image	Highland Park Water Tower.jpg
caption	The Highland Park Tower viewed from the northwest
location	1570 Highland Parkway
Saint Paul, Minnesota
coordinates
built	1928
architect	Clarence W. Wigington; Frank X. Tewes
added	July 17, 1986
refnum	86001670

Saint Paul, Minnesota

The Highland Park Water Tower is a water tower in the Highland Park area of Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. It was designed by Clarence W. Wigington, the nation's first African-American municipal architect. The tower was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. It was completed in 1928 at a cost of $69,483.

The octagonally-shaped tower, on the second-highest of seven hills in Saint Paul, is constructed of brick and cut Kasota and Bedford stone. It is between 127 and 134 feet high and holds 200,000 gallons of water in a steel tank. It is topped with an arched observation deck, open to the public on two special occasions per year (Highland Fest and the second weekend in October) for those willing to climb 151 steps. Beneath the observation deck, it is ornamented with carved downspouts and shields. The tower has been virtually unaltered since it was originally built. At its highest point, the tower reaches 440 feet in elevation above sea level. Its width at the base is 40 feet, and its width at the top observation deck is 36 feet.

References

{{NRISref. 2007a
Millett, Larry. (2007). "AIA Guide to the Twin Cities: The Essential Source on the Architecture of Minneapolis and St. Paul". [[Minnesota Historical Society.
"Highland Water Tower brochure". [[Saint Paul Regional Water Services]].
(19 October 2015). "Highland Tower".

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