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Lake Minatare Lighthouse

United States

The 186th tallest tower in the world

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The Lake Minatare Lighthouse is a historic mock lighthouse located on Lake Minatare near the city of Scottsbluff in Nebraska. The 55-foot (17 m) tower was built by the Veterans Conservation Corps in 1939 and is currently located within the North Platte National Wildlife Refuge. Designed as a combination shelter house and observation tower, it was "built to simulate a lighthouse."

Building data from Wikidata (CC0); heights normalised. Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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