Kingfisher Tower

The Kingfisher Tower is an approximately 18 meter high observation tower near Cooperstown in upstate New York.

Built for Edward Clark, president of the Singer sewing machine company in 1876 in the Gothic Revival style tower never served a real purpose, but was as a foil ( folly ) and thought was a pure Staffagebau. The architect Henry Janeway Hardenbergh was influenced by the Romantic Rhine and built the tower on the eastern shore of Otsego Lake, at Point Judith on the family property of the Clarks. The tower is located up now privately owned and not open to visitors.