NORTH POINT WATER TOWER

The North Point Water Tower is located on the bluff above Lake Michigan on Milwaukee's East Side.  This year it was included in the Doors Open Milwaukee event.  The tower was built in 1871 and remains been a Milwaukee landmark.  It of course no longer serves as a functioning water tower, but it is architecturally distinct and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

Here first is a view of the tower's exterior.

The tower is 175 feet tall.

Here is another shot of the tower looking up from just outside the entrance.

This shot is a bit silly, as it provides little in the way of perspective.

During the Doors Open event, the door to the tower was literally open and visitors could squeeze inside to view the tower's standpipe and spiral staircase.  The light inside the tower was surprisingly good, and I took the following shots primarily in an attempt to capture the staircase (which visitors were not allowed to climb for obvious reasons).

I tried these shots as black & whites but in the end decided that they were more interesting in color.

John